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[–] [email protected] 19 points 3 weeks ago (3 children)

There’s another Rome in ny

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Used to be a new rome too. Maybe those don't get counted though.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 weeks ago

Used to be a new rome too. Maybe those don’t get counted though.

I believe it's Constantinople now.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

I believe, there might also be a Rome across the pond...

[–] Maven 1 points 3 weeks ago
[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 weeks ago

It's kinda shit, I prefer the original Rome.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 3 weeks ago

Do you ever look at the pavement out front of your home and think how crazy it is that it's one colossal structure that connects to almost everyone's house in the continent?

[–] [email protected] 10 points 3 weeks ago

The New World is just a perfect mirror image of the Old World

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 weeks ago

Always wild to me how badly those English settlers fumbled something as super fun as naming places.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 weeks ago

That Rome's a typo

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 weeks ago

Wait you left off Rome, NY

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 weeks ago

Would any rational person follow a road leading to Florida?