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I wonder if English people get (or got) mad that our founding fathers kept stealing all the good city names.

Well, I got caught out on that one a while back. Seriously*, have you ever heard of London being anything other than the capital city of England? OK, I hadn't, don't answer that!

Oh, and I knew about Birmingham, Alabama!

* - FAO: Grammar Police: Should it be semicolon or a comma after the word "seriously" in that sentence?