http://www.fragmentsfromfloyd.com/uncategorized/places-were-from/ Photos and Front Porch Musing from Floyd County Virginia Sat, 11 Feb 2012 14:25:42 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3 http://www.fragmentsfromfloyd.com/uncategorized/places-were-from/comment-page-1/#comment-5075 Jeff Sun, 23 Nov 2008 18:22:16 +0000 http://www.fragmentsfromfloyd.com/2008/11/23/places-were-from/#comment-5075 What a gem! Thanks for sharing, Fred! What a gem! Thanks for sharing, Fred!

]]> http://www.fragmentsfromfloyd.com/uncategorized/places-were-from/comment-page-1/#comment-5073 fletch Sun, 23 Nov 2008 13:27:54 +0000 http://www.fragmentsfromfloyd.com/2008/11/23/places-were-from/#comment-5073 I saw this map mentioned on the Rachel Maddow show a few days ago. When Spanish explorers asked the natives in what is now Mexico what they called the region. The reply in native tongue was "Yucatan", meaning something like,"I don't understand, what do you mean?" So the Spanish started calling that region Yucatan. I saw this map mentioned on the Rachel Maddow show a few days ago. When Spanish explorers asked the natives in what is now Mexico what they called the region. The reply in native tongue was “Yucatan”, meaning something like,”I don’t understand, what do you mean?” So the Spanish started calling that region Yucatan.

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