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Er... Just so you know Coventry is actually in England (though it may be furthur north than Ri, I don't know ).
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You forgot Adelphi, Maryland -- a suburb of Washington, DC.
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Coventry, RI is a town where my friend Justin lives, and my friend Jen when she is staying wtih her father. i believe there is a vampires graveyard that kids go to party at there, but ive never made it there except having it pointed out to me when some kids were driving me to a party inside a construction site where some kids father got drunk and hit on my friend Mike..
there is also a Coventry, Massachusetts, i believe (but am not sure of), that i was referring to.. but you are right the Coventry would probably be named for the one in England..
locally, i got the biggest 'mention boost', however, when Chepachet was featured on the X-Files.. Chepachet is a tiny village of the town of Glocester, where i spent part of my childhood and shares a border with both Foster and Burrillville, where my parents and grandparents live (respectively) and where i went to high school. even though when Mulder was staying there on the X-Files, there seemed to be a lot of Vancouver-looking old growth trees around.. he said it was up route 5 but actually route 6 or 44 leads more that way, 5 leads to smithfield from johnston, unless you turn onto 44 or 116. they got the fact that it was in the middle of nowhere right though. Plus, the crazy psychologist Mulder went to was in Warwick, where i got to school at CCRI and the motel room Scully found him in was in Providence, where I work my two jobs and get into all my trouble. although there really arent that many motels, per se, unless you move outside the city into Johnston along the Connecticut routes
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I don't think Star Trek's ever mentioned Houston, Texas. I suppose that means that my city didn't survive that far into the 21st century.
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Which hopefully means the rest of Texas might be gone too.
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Hey, Texas has a lot to offer the rest of the world! Like... umm... er... Tex-Mex! Yes! Without us, there'd be no Tex-Mex! So
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Someone behind the scenes of "Deep Space Nine" may have liked my area, as, if I recall correctly, both a planned visit by Sisko to his sister in Portland, and a U.S.S. "Portland," were mentioned. Of course, "they" could have been referring to my city's namesake.
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did they ever mention cincinnati? i hope this place got gigaton of nukes during world war III.
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Still seems very "anglo-centered", don't you think? They hardly give a damn about areas like Africa or Asia - and that is where the largest part of Earth's population lives - at least at the moment. Yet they are hardly represented at all. (Of course I know the real reasons - so don't try teaching me about ratings, marketing, and the like).
I know many Americans don't like to hear that - especially at the moment - (or haven't known yet) but there is more in the world than just the U.S.!!
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quote:I know many Americans don't like to hear that - especially at the moment - (or haven't known yet) but there is more in the world than just the U.S.!
quote:Several places around the world that have Adelphi as or as a part of their names (at least 30) There you go.
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You forgot one. Adelphi, Maryland. The hometown of Dennis Bailey (and me, incidently), co-writer of "Tin Man," which happened to feature a starship named the USS Adelphi.
Gee. I wonder what he named it after.
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i think its a cable TV company too.
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Well, Snay that would be one of the at least 30 places around the world that have the word Adelphi as or part of their names.
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