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>>> LAST
>>> LAST NIGHT ON "207", WE ASKED A TRIVIA QUESTION IN CONNECTION TO MAINE'S 4@200th
BIRTHDAY.
YESTERDAY, MARCH 3rd MARKED THE
ACTUAL DATE THE MISSOURI 4@
COMPROMISE WAS APPROVED BY
CONGRESS, ALLOWING MISSOURI TO
ENTER THE UNION AS A SLAVE
STATE AND MAINE AS A FREE
STATE.
>> WE WERE CURIOUS TO KNOW IF
ANY OF YOU KNEW WHERE OUR NAME
ACTUALLY DERIVED FROM.
LOOK AT THE RESPONSES ON
FACEBOOK.
A LONG TIME GUIDE WITH THE REAL
PORTLAND TOUR SAID THAT THE
CLOSEST ANSWER THAT I 4@BELIEVE
GOES BACK 4@TO THE ANCESTORS OF
SIR FERNANDO GORGEOUS.
HIS ANCESTORS 4@DATE BACK TO 4@
LOCATION CALLED BROAD MAINE 4@I
ENGLAND.
INTERESTING STUFF.
TIM 4@SAYS FROM OUT ON THE
ISLANDS OF VINYL HAVEN THEY SAY
THEY 4@HAVE TO GO TO THE MAINLA
OR MAINE FOR SHORT.
>> ANN, IT COMES FROM FRANCE, I
STOOD IN MAINE IN PARIS.
>> YOU CAN PROBABLY GUESS,
THERE'S NO CLEAR ANSWER.
WHAT WE KNOW 4@FROM THE MAINE
STATE LIBRARY, THE NAME FIRST
APPEARED IN WRITING IN 1622, 4@
CHARTER OF THE COUNSEL OF NEW
ENGLAND 4@GRANTING LAND TO SIR
FERNANDO GORGEOUS, AND CAPTAIN
JOHN 4@MASON, MASON NAMING HIS
PORTION OF 4@THE LAND GRANT NEW
HAMPSHIRE, AND LATER LABELED
LACONIA.
GORGEOUS CONSIDERED THE NAME
SOMERSET FOR HIS TERRITORY, AND
KING CHARLES 4@SHOT IT DOWN,
RESPONDING IT, QUOTE, SHALL
FOREVER, HERE AFTER BE NAMED OR
CALLED 4@THE PROVIDENCE OF MAIN
THAT'S WITH A Y 4@INSTEAD OF I,
BUT WHERE DID MAINE COME FROM?
@
>>
>> ONE
>> ONE THEORY IS THE QUEEN OF CHARLES I WAS THOUGHT TO BE THE LANDLORD OR OWNER OF MAINE IN
THE 1600s, BUT IT TURNS OUT SHE
HAD NO DEALINGS WITH EITHER OF
MAINE.
>> 4@SOMETHING ELSE TO KEEP IN @
MIND, THERE WAS A VILLAGE ON
THE COAST 4@OF ENGLAND CALLED
MAINE A BIG CLUE, AND 4@SIR
GORGEOUS, COMING 4@BEFORE FROM
THE AREA CALLED BROAD MAINE,
AND PART OF IT WAS CALLED
PARVA, MA4@INE, AND IT WAS A
BEAUTIFUL MAINE, THERE YOU GO.
>> ONE OF THE THEORIES IT WAS
FIXED IN 4@1665 WHEN THE KING'S
COMMISSIONERS ORDERED THE
PROVIDENCE BE ENTERED INTO
OFFICIAL RECORDS, 12 YEARS
LATER, MASSACHUSETTS PURCHASING
THE PATENTS, BUT THE NAME
REMAINED INTACT.
>> THE MOST POPULA4@R THEORY IS
THAT IT HAS TO DO WITH 4@THE
NAUTICAL 4@TERM MAIN FOR
MAINLAND.
MAYNE DISTINGUISHES 4@THE BULK
THE STATE FROM 4@THE NUMEROUS
ISLAND, AND IT'S COMMONLY USED
TODAY.
>> JUST KNOW AT THE VERY END,
OBVIOUSLY KNOWS EXACTLY WHER4@E
IT 4@CAME 4@FROM.
>> OUR COLLEAGUES, GIZMO ONE OF
THE MOST VALUABLE.
CALM ALL 4@DAY.
>> IT'S SOFAS NATEING, THOUGH,
THAT THERE IS REALLY NO
DEFINITIVE 4@ANSWER OUT 4@THERE
>> THAT'S A REALLY UNUSUAL
THING.
>> USUALLY WE KNOW WHERE THE
NAMES CAME FROM, AND IT'S ODD
IT'S 4@A TOTAL MYSTERY.
NO DEFINITIVE ANSWER, AND IT
SEEMED LIKE A STRAIGHTFORWARD
THING.
>> YOU WOULD THINK SO, AND WE
TRICKED YOU WITH THAT, AND SOME
OF YOU CALLED US OUT 4@ON SOCIA
MEDIA SAYING THERE'S NO ANSWER.
>> I 4@WAS THINKING ABOUT IT JU
NOW, AND IT WAS ROLLING, MAINE
IS THE ONLY STATE WITH A NAME
THAT HAS JUST ONE SILL
SYLLABLE.
NOT THAT 4@MANY HAVE TWO.
I 4@STARTED THINKING VERMONT, N
YORK, GEORGIA, I WAS WORKING
EAST TO WEST.
PROBABLY OTHERS I 4@DIDN'T GET
CHANCE TO TABULATE.
>> NOT 4@MANY.
>> TEXAS?
>> T4@EXAS, YEAH.
>> WE WILL BE THINKING