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Originally Posted by sammyg2
While we're at it, maybe someone can 'splain why Greenland if frozen and Iceland is green?
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MARKETING!
The story I heard is the vikings that first settled there knew they could get new people to move there if it was called Greenland.
From what I read, the USA has offered to buy Greenland twice before. Evidently after WW2, we offered and they had the same reply, NO.
When my dad first started his career as a pilot in the USAF he had to go to Thule Air Base in northern Greenland on a regular basis. He said the locals all said there was a naked woman behind every tree. But of course there is no tree within several hundred miles. He hated the place. When his next assignment came up, he had a choice of three locations. That is when we moved to the Hawaiian territories.