Taylor Kingston wrote:

Guy Macon http://www.guymacon.com/

New Mexico was named during the 1500s. The country
called Mexico came into being hundreds of years later in 1821.

I don't understand why the name New Mexico would be used before
there was an "old" Mexico. England came before New England, Spain
before New Spain (i.e. Mexico), France before New France (i.e.
Quebec), Guinea before New Guinea, Wales before New South Wales, etc.
How could there be a "new" Mexico without an older Mexico (not
necessarily the country now called Mexico) preceding it?

The older Mexico was Mexico city, capital of what was then
New Spain.

The Sir Richard Francis Burton translation is online he
http://mfx.dasburo.com/an/a_index_commented.html]

Not in my edition. Night 29 there, beginning on page 296 of Volume
1, finishes "The Tale of the Jewish Doctor" and starts "The Tale of
the Tailor." No Aladdin there, or anywhere, according to the index.
But that does not necessarily invalidate your question or answer; the
story might have been added later.

Interesting! Would you be so kind as to look at
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Boo...ights#Versions
and tell me which version you have?

[16] Who is buried in Grant's tomb?

Ulysses S. Grant and his wife Julia.

Incorrect.

You sure about that? To mention just one source, the World Book
Encyclopedia (1988 edition) says "Grant died on July 23, 1885 ... His
body lies in a tomb in New York City ... Mrs. Grant died in 1902 and
was buried at his side." Have they been exhumed since then?

Nope. The World Book Encyclopedia is wrong about his wife.
Grant and his wife were entombed, not buried. Grant's tomb i
s an above-ground structure and thus nobody can be "buried" in it.

Also, "Ulysses S. Grant" should be "Ulysses S Grant."
The S is his middle name, not an abbreviation.

He was named Hiram Ulysses Grant at birth, and often used the
name used Ulysses Hiram Grant to avoid the initials H.U.G.
The congressman who appointed him to West Point, knowing him as
Ulysses Grant, assumed that his mother's maiden name (Simpson)
was his middle name and apointed him as "Ulysses S. Grant."
He then started using (spoken) "US Grant" as his name (The other
cadets nicknamed him 'Uncle Sam' for the US). always insisting
that his middle initial stood for "nothing."

....

And very few get that second location, or incorrectly
miss the lack of bears there.)

Would you believe I remembered this from a Junior Scholastic or some
such magazine I read in 5th or 6th grade, nearly 50 years ago?

Amazing how the mind works, isn't it?

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Guy Macon
http://www.guymacon.com/