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« on: December 19, 2014, 05:49:26 PM » |
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Hey, is that the White Rose symbol for York in your signature? York has a bunch of white rose insignia.
Lancaster is the Red Rose city. The local city bus is called RRTA (red rose transit authority), the little historical signs have stylized red roses painted on them, and there are red rose bushes on some of the exits from 30. There's also a red rose credit union and a bar called The Red Rose.
I think both cities took their symbols from the English cities of the war of the roses fame, in which the Lancastrians and Yorkists rivaled one another for domination.
I never knew about any of this stuff before I moved to PA. Until a couple of years ago, I always thought that "The War of the Roses" was a movie starring Michael Douglas and a reasonably attractive middle-aged woman who he was divorcing. Danny DeVito was there too.
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