From: tim@smofs.org   
      
   On 10/2/2025 9:38 PM, Keith F. Lynch wrote:   
   > It's also odd that British people are honorored, not by naming things   
   > for them but for naming things for their *titles*.  ObFandom:  I've   
   > been to Worldcons in cities named for Cecil Calvert, William Lamb,   
   > and (virtual only) Arthur Wellesley.  I've never been to any of the   
   > Worldcons in the city named for King James II.  Good luck trying to   
   > figure out what cities I'm referring to.   
   Baltimore, Melbourne and Wellington. Plus New York NY.   
      
   It's always been confusing:   
   "The abolition of slavery all over the world was a cause which very   
   early enlisted his sympathy, and he used to tell, with grim humour, how,   
   when, after he had become Lord Shaftesbury, he signed an Open Letter to   
   America in favour of emancipation, a Southern newspaper sarcastically   
   inquired, "Where was this Lord Shaftesbury when the noble-hearted Lord   
   Ashley was doing his single-handed work on behalf of the English slaves   
   in the factories of Lancashire and Yorkshire?""   
      
   from Collections and Recollections, by G.W.E. Russell   
      
   Tim   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)