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so I went to trivia night at the Flying Scotsman bar yesterday. The bar is hard to find, it's down a poorly labeled street that looks like a driveway (2nd St NW) just north of Constitution Ave, sort of tucked in behind the Dept. of Labor. Anyway, they didn't do trivia and hadn't since December. But it was a cool, Cheers type place, where everybody seemed to know each other. And apparently they don't allow Yankees hats, which I appreciate, and the bartender invented a weird blue drink as I was sitting there. It was fun. But as I was walking there I walked past a homeless shelter, and there was a caravan of three guys in wheelchairs going in, one guy had a motorized one and was pulling the others. That was sort of interesting, but then some other dude kept yelling "POWs coming through! Pimps on Wheels!" Which I thought was pretty funny.

In other news, the oldest map to have the name "America" on it is up for auction. Here's the stuff on Christie's website. The Yahoo article also explains why the continent is called "America," because explorer Amerigo Vespucci first argued that the new land was a new continent. I'm glad they didn't call it Vespuccia.