Friday Factoid: The Bronx!
Welcome to another Friday Factoid!
The notorious Bronx....
For me, this New York borough conjours up images of "My Cousin Vinny" and the automobile-savvy Marisa Tomei with her quick-witted comebacks.
But do you know where the Bronx got it's name from?
Well, the Bronx is actually named after the Bronx River -- which in turn was named after the first European settler in the region, a Scandanavian called Jonas Jonson Bronck.
He settled in the region in 1639 -- and owned a large farm roughly covering the area south of 150th Street.
Bronck has a street named after him in the Faroe Islands -- and a public school christened in his honour (the Jonas Bronck Academy).
And yet to this day, nobody really knows whether the founder of this holly little province was Swedish, Danish or Dutch.
The Swedish claim ownership, yet apparently state his name is spelled incorrectly. It should be, they say, Jonas Jonson Brunk.
But "The Brunx" just doesn't sound right.
Happy Friday! :)
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by Karl
6:36 PM
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Priscilla Palmer, at
2:36 PM
Hi Karl,
I just surfed into your blog from another blog. I like what I've read so far. I'm from The Bronx and it's not as notorious as people think. It's my home and i love it!
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