38 States of America
In the 1970s, geography professor C Etzel Pearcy proposed reconfiguring the United States into 38 states that were, in his view, more physically and culturally coherent.
Each State's new name, chosen with the help of a poll of geography students, represents a physical or cultural aspect of the new territory.
For example, Cascade (named after a major mountain range in Washington and Oregon), Cochise (named after the Apache Indian chief of Arizona), and Alamo (named after the mission in San Antonio, Tex.).
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Daniel Smith - a long time ago, in a galaxy far away just north of Watford, Daniel fancied himself as a scientist but turned out to be the worst scientist since that bloke who mapped out all those canals on Mars that turned out to be scratches on his telescope's lens. Luckily, he is now not working on the Large Hadron Collider inadvertently creating a black hole that would swallow the world but is safely behind a desk writing this blog, bringing you the fantastical underbelly of nature... weird science.
