Re: Google honors Grace Hopper today Message #9 Posted by Bill (Smithville, NJ) on 10 Dec 2013, 12:29 p.m., in response to message #8 by Walter B
Okay.
Now I get it. From The Web, a few of "God's Country":
The earliest recorded use of the phrase as applied to New Zealand
God’s Own Country, often abbreviated to Godzone or less often Godzown,
is a phrase that has been used for more than 100 years by New Zealanders to describe their homeland.
adopted as a slogan by the tourism department of the Kerala state government in India
The phrase found sporadic use to describe several American regions.
It was used by the Confederate army to describe parts of Tennessee in the 1860s.
The phrase was also used to describe California in the 1860s,
and by Clement Laird Vallandigham to describe the land of the Mississippi plains
None of these remained a widely used to describe a region,
though it is still occasionally used to describe the United States overall
used to describe the Wicklow Mountains of Ireland by Edward du Bois
Scotland is also referred to as 'God's Country' because of the beautiful landscapes and countryside
In the United Kingdom the phrase is commonly used by people to describe Yorkshire,
England's largest county. This is used interchangeably with God's Own County.
Still many areas. Not so easy.
I'm assuming you are referring to the last one above?
But this thread has now degenerated into a totally off-topic subject. (partly my fault.)
This distracts from the wonderful work that Grace Hopper did for the computing (and as a result the calculator) community.
Bill
Edited: 10 Dec 2013, 1:05 p.m.
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