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    Which states or countries are (or were) named after businessmen?

    Question #75921. Asked by author. (Feb 15 07 9:13 PM)


    Arpeggionist

    		Zambia and Zimbabwe were formerly one country known as Rhodesia, after an English businessman named Rhodes. Otherwise, I should suggest you define the term "businessman", as Amerigo Vespucci crossed the Atlantic for his own financial gain.

    Feb 16 07, 3:12 AM
    What-A-Mess

    		Lohmanville!

    Feb 16 07, 5:09 AM
    author

    		It might be hard to define a ´businessman´. But what about William Penn - Pennsylvania?

    Feb 16 07, 9:39 AM

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