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Countries that need to change their name.

  1. Democratic Republic of Congo
  2. Democratic People’s Republic of Korea
  3. The Oriental Republic of Uruguay
57648

Countries that need to change their name.

  1. Democratic Republic of Congo
  2. Democratic People’s Republic of Korea
  3. The Oriental Republic of Uruguay
  4. Guinea (should be “Italian-American”)
57649

Countries that need to change their name.

  1. Democratic Republic of Congo
  2. Democratic People’s Republic of Korea
  3. The Oriental Republic of Uruguay
  4. Guinea (should be “Italian-American”)
  5. Togo

Supposedly means “land where the lagoons lie” but sounds too much like a fast food order.

57650

Countries that need to change their name.

  1. Democratic Republic of Congo
  2. Democratic People’s Republic of Korea
  3. The Oriental Republic of Uruguay
  4. Guinea (should be “Italian-American”)
  5. Togo
  6. Zimbabwe (nothing good has happened there since they took that name; maybe the name is a jinx)
57651

Countries that need to change their name.

  1. Democratic Republic of Congo
  2. Democratic People’s Republic of Korea
  3. The Oriental Republic of Uruguay
  4. Guinea (should be “Italian-American”)
  5. Togo
  6. Zimbabwe (nothing good has happened there since they took that name; maybe the name is a jinx)
  7. Georgia, so it won’t be confused with the US state
57652

Countries that need to change their name.

  1. Democratic Republic of Congo
  2. Democratic People’s Republic of Korea
  3. The Oriental Republic of Uruguay
  4. Guinea (should be “Italian-American”)
  5. Togo
  6. Zimbabwe (nothing good has happened there since they took that name; maybe the name is a jinx)
  7. Georgia, so it won’t be confused with the US state
  8. Republic of the Niger (not to be confused with Nigeria)
57653

Countries that need to change their name.

  1. Democratic Republic of Congo
  2. Democratic People’s Republic of Korea
  3. The Oriental Republic of Uruguay
  4. Guinea (should be “Italian-American”)
  5. Togo
  6. Zimbabwe (nothing good has happened there since they took that name; maybe the name is a jinx)
  7. Georgia, so it won’t be confused with the US state
  8. Republic of the Niger (not to be confused with Nigeria)
  9. Kyrgyzstan
57654

Countries that need to change their name.

  1. Democratic Republic of Congo
  2. Democratic People’s Republic of Korea
  3. The Oriental Republic of Uruguay
  4. Guinea (should be “Italian-American”)
  5. Togo
  6. Zimbabwe (nothing good has happened there since they took that name; maybe the name is a jinx)
  7. Georgia, so it won’t be confused with the US state
  8. Republic of the Niger (not to be confused with Nigeria)
  9. Kyrgyzstan
  10. Turkey (it’s entirely inedible)
57655

Countries that need to change their name.

  1. Democratic Republic of Congo
  2. Democratic People’s Republic of Korea
  3. The Oriental Republic of Uruguay
  4. Guinea (should be “Italian-American”)
  5. Togo
  6. Zimbabwe (nothing good has happened there since they took that name; maybe the name is a jinx)
  7. Georgia, so it won’t be confused with the US state
  8. Republic of the Niger (not to be confused with Nigeria)
  9. Kyrgyzstan
  10. Turkey (it’s entirely inedible)
  11. Trinidad and Tobago (seriously, guys, pick one name!)
57656

Countries that need to change their name.

  1. Democratic Republic of Congo
  2. Democratic People’s Republic of Korea
  3. The Oriental Republic of Uruguay
  4. Guinea (should be “Italian-American”)
  5. Togo
  6. Zimbabwe (nothing good has happened there since they took that name; maybe the name is a jinx)
  7. Georgia, so it won’t be confused with the US state
  8. Republic of the Niger (not to be confused with Nigeria)
  9. Kyrgyzstan
  10. Turkey (it’s entirely inedible)
  11. Trinidad and Tobago (seriously, guys, pick one name!)
  12. Saint Vincent and the Grenadines (sounds like an opening act)
57657

Countries that need to change their name.

  1. Democratic Republic of Congo
  2. Democratic People’s Republic of Korea
  3. The Oriental Republic of Uruguay
  4. Guinea (should be “Italian-American”)
  5. Togo
  6. Zimbabwe (nothing good has happened there since they took that name; maybe the name is a jinx)
  7. Georgia, so it won’t be confused with the US state
  8. Republic of the Niger (not to be confused with Nigeria)
  9. Kyrgyzstan
  10. Turkey (it’s entirely inedible)
  11. Trinidad and Tobago (seriously, guys, pick one name!)
  12. Saint Vincent and the Grenadines (sounds like an opening act)
  13. United States of America

Just for starters, why should the country commemorate Amerigo Vespucci? What did he do that was so significant? Next…take your pick…

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Memorable storms

  1. Hurricane Beulah, 1967

I was a little kid and we had to cut short our vacation in Padre Island, Texas

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Memorable storms

  1. Hurricane Beulah, 1967
  2. North American Ice Storm of 1998
57659

Memorable storms

  1. Hurricane Beulah, 1967
  2. North American Ice Storm of 1998
  3. Hurricane Maria, 2017
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Memorable storms

  1. Hurricane Beulah, 1967
  2. North American Ice Storm of 1998
  3. Hurricane Maria, 2017
  4. Hurricane Katrina, 2005

Likely to be remembered in Nawlins and the Gulf Coast for many, many years to come.

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Memorable storms

  1. Hurricane Beulah, 1967
  2. North American Ice Storm of 1998
  3. Hurricane Maria, 2017
  4. Hurricane Katrina, 2005
  5. Hurricane Andrew, 1992

A Category 5 storm that passed over the Bahamas and Florida.

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Memorable storms

  1. Hurricane Beulah, 1967
  2. North American Ice Storm of 1998
  3. Hurricane Maria, 2017
  4. Hurricane Katrina, 2005
  5. Hurricane Andrew, 1992
  6. Hurricane Hazel, 1954

Hazel took a weird turn, and ended up in Toronto–which was totally unprepared for such a storm. An entire street, plus the houses, and their occupants, were washed away by floodwaters.

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Memorable storms

  1. Hurricane Beulah, 1967
  2. North American Ice Storm of 1998
  3. Hurricane Maria, 2017
  4. Hurricane Katrina, 2005
  5. Hurricane Andrew, 1992
  6. Hurricane Hazel, 1954
  7. The Blizzard of 1978

I woke up to hear the radio saying: “…and the wind just blew over the snowplow.” And I knew that couldn’t have been right. But it was.

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Memorable storms

  1. Hurricane Beulah, 1967
  2. North American Ice Storm of 1998
  3. Hurricane Maria, 2017
  4. Hurricane Katrina, 2005
  5. Hurricane Andrew, 1992
  6. Hurricane Hazel, 1954
  7. The Blizzard of 1978
  8. Hurricane Fran 1996

For weeks afterward, I could hear the beeping of dump trucks depositing fallen trees into a mulching field.

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Memorable storms

  1. Hurricane Beulah, 1967
  2. North American Ice Storm of 1998
  3. Hurricane Maria, 2017
  4. Hurricane Katrina, 2005
  5. Hurricane Andrew, 1992
  6. Hurricane Hazel, 1954
  7. The Blizzard of 1978
  8. Hurricane Fran 1996
  9. Great Storm of 1900

A Category 4 Hurricane that hit Galveston, Texas. This was back before they had modern weather monitoring out to sea so the hurricane hit the city with essentially no warning.

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Memorable storms

  1. Hurricane Beulah, 1967
  2. North American Ice Storm of 1998
  3. Hurricane Maria, 2017
  4. Hurricane Katrina, 2005
  5. Hurricane Andrew, 1992
  6. Hurricane Hazel, 1954
  7. The Blizzard of 1978
  8. Hurricane Fran 1996
  9. Great Storm of 1900
  10. Hurricane Audrey, 1957

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