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Originally Posted by pricemazda
Well the first two are because the US Embassy is located in Grosvenor Sq
The Lincoln statue in Manchester is actually an interesting one. Manchester used to be known as Cottonopolis because of all the textiles factories. Obviously, during the civil war Manchester could have continued to buy cotton from the Southern States, instead the workers in Manchester refused to work with Confederate cotton as to do so would mean money flowing into the Confederacy and support slavery.
This self-imposed ban, caused massive unemployment, hardship and starvation in Manchester but is a great example of solidarity, even at the price of individuals on well-being.
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Great bit of history, although whilst Manchester stuck to it's principles and rallied aganst slavery in the southern states, neighbouring Liverpool was building war ships for the south. Liverpool was even the unofficial home of the confederate fleet during the US Civil War.
http://www.liverpoolwiki.org/Liverpo...federate_Fleet
http://www.liverpoolmuseums.org.uk/m...ilt-ships.aspx
I suppose Manchester and Liverpool have always had a good deal of rivalry from economic and political rivalry through to cultural and sporting rivalry, and today this rivalry manifests itself on the football field.
As for the North and South of the US, the Mason-Dixon line is named after surveyors Charles Mason from Gloucestershire and Jeremiah Dixon from County Durham in England. In fact it's believed Dixon's name may have been the origin of the term Dixie, as in Dixieland.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mason%E2%80%93Dixon_Line
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dixie
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