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Brian {Hamilton Kelly}

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Feb 21, 1995, 3:45:17 PM2/21/95
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dma...@cdmas.crc.mcw.edu "Don Martinson" writes:

> I'm trying to find the name of a country or nation whose name is a
> palindrome.

You wouldn't settle for a language instead, would you?

Malayalam

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Don Martinson

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Feb 21, 1995, 1:48:32 PM2/21/95
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I'm trying to find the name of a country or nation whose name is a
palindrome.
Don Martinson
dma...@cdmas.crc.mcw.edu

Gerry Gaffney

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Feb 22, 1995, 7:43:50 AM2/22/95
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> In article <3idci0$g...@post.its.mcw.edu>
> dma...@cdmas.crc.mcw.edu "Don Martinson" writes:
>
> > I'm trying to find the name of a country or nation whose name is a
> > palindrome.
>
Can't help you, although I recall Napoleon's alleged lament:

Able was I ere I saw Elba

Alan Leary

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Feb 23, 1995, 2:10:42 AM2/23/95
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Gerry Gaffney <gaff...@insane.apana.org.au> wrote:


> Can't help you, although I recall Napoleon's alleged lament:
>
> Able was I ere I saw Elba


--- and I though Napoleon only spoke French!

Mark Odegard

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Feb 23, 1995, 6:26:45 AM2/23/95
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In <ajl-230295...@inyala.cs.rmit.edu.au> ajl@goanna (Alan Leary)
writes:

And also (referring to Theodore Roosevelt)

A man, a plan, a canal, Panama!


Pascal MacProgrammer

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Feb 23, 1995, 1:27:44 PM2/23/95
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>>Gerry Gaffney <gaff...@insane.apana.org.au> wrote:
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>>> Can't help you, although I recall Napoleon's alleged lament:
>>> Able was I ere I saw Elba

>In <ajl-230295...@inyala.cs.rmit.edu.au> ajl@goanna (Alan Leary)
>writes:
>>--- and I though Napoleon only spoke French!

And then there was my great-great-uncle Weston, a forty-niner who
ordered a mail-order bride, and correspended with her for quite some time
while saving up enough money to have her shipped from New York to
California. His comment when he saw her for the first time, as she
disemparked from the ship was, "Remarkable was I ere I saw Elba Kramer!"

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Max Crittenden

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Feb 24, 1995, 4:45:13 PM2/24/95
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In article <3ihrdl$k...@ixnews2.ix.netcom.com>, mlo...@ix.netcom.com (Mark
Odegard) wrote:


> And also (referring to Theodore Roosevelt)
>
> A man, a plan, a canal, Panama!

Hold on a second! I've always known that palindrome to refer to
Ferdinand de Lesseps. Can someone back me up on this?

Or maybe it should be
Two men, a plan, a canal, Panemowt!

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Mark Odegard

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Feb 24, 1995, 7:52:42 PM2/24/95
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In <max_crittenden-...@128.18.42.3>
max_cri...@qm.sri.com (Max Crittenden) writes:

de Lesseps built the Suez Canal. His company went bankrupt trying to
build the Panama Canal. Teddy assisted in Panama's "independence" from
Columbia in 1903 by sending a gunboat (or two) to back up his opinions
on the subject.


NZ Translation Centre Ltd

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Feb 27, 1995, 6:51:20 AM2/27/95
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: >>> Can't help you

I'm one of the many, however, I can offer you palindromic names of two
languages:

Malayalam
Nauruan

Any use?

Martin

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