Tuesday, June 24, 2014

Waterloo!




London's Waterloo Station, named after the neighborhood, which was named after the bridge over the Thames, which was named after Napoleon's defeat at the Belgian town.  The bridge inspired the Kinks song Waterloo Sunset, and who can get the Stonewall Jackson song out of their heads?




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