Never Heard of It
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Ever heard of Shawmut, or Pigs Eye Parrat? There are - or were - real places. But, with the march of time, it seems everything is changing. Robots are replacing doctors. Mail has been usurped by email… and text… and tweet. The 5 and Dime, became Kmart, and then Walmart – then who knows what’s next?
Heck… it seems in some ways that the gladiators of the past have been replaced by Professional Wrestling, which has further morphed into Politics, with its showmanship and to-the-death enemies. Even the ever-trusted paper map has been replaced by GPS, and the encyclopedia has been booted into obscurity by Google.
And where are you from?
https://www.ranker.com/list/us-cities-renamed/tracey-graham
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_city_name_changes
https://languagecentre.sun.ac.za/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/List-of-City-Name-Changes-Wikipedia.pdf
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