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BT wrote:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arkansas_River

What is so inconsistent about the name of the river and it's location?
It starts in the Colorado Rockies and merges into the Mississippi
River in
Arkansas
So yes.. the Headwaters of the Arkansas River is in Colorado and does
flow
through the George.

And which end of that river do you think got found and named first?

The Ohio River is the Allegheny and the Monongahela at Pittsburgh and
doesn't go through Ohio either.


And they even named the stadium Three Rivers Stadium...

... then imploded it (I was there to watch it fall at 8 am on a Sunday
morning) and built Heinz Stadium on its parking lot to replace it,
complete with ketchup and 57 varieties of baked beans.

It would seem the Mississippi rises in William-and-Maryland
(because it becomes the Ohio and the Monongahela.)

Of course, William-and-Maryland had to be renamed Maryland
because it was next door to William Penn's wood land (sylvania)
where William Mason and William Dixon had to draw the dixie line
and William Pitt the younger had built Pittsburgh and they were
all descended from William the ******* who conquered England
in 1066 and there were too many ****ing Williams.

The Headwaters of the William River is in William Colorado
so they called it the Arkansas River instead, but only after the
USA helped Britain defeat Kaiser Wilhelm.


Speaking of the Mason-Dixon line, if you're into books (or books on tape!)
check out A Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill Bryson, lots of
interesting anecdotes on things like the Mason-Dixon line.