A New Name for Czech Republic

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On the naming of Canada

This question came up in Trivia Dominoes, but I don’t want to hijack a perfectly fine thread game: Trivia?!? Much ink has been spilled, and electrons bent out of shape over this issue. In 1864, when the Fathers of Confederation met in Quebec to lay the framework for the new country, they did not agree on what it would be called. The delegates were from the Province of Canada, Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, Prince Edward Island, and Newfoundland, and there was not yet a strong sense of the n…