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Victors don’t just write the history books. They make the atlases too. Places are named and cities are founded by strong-willed go-getters. They’ve seeded our maps with the rush of exploration and the joy of conquest. 

Toponymy generally isn’t the province of the melancholy or the morose. They would make terrible explorers and conquistadores. Most days, they don’t even make it out of the house — let alone to that nameless continent across the horizon.

07 October, 2015