A few posts ago, I wrote about the Louisiana Purchase. The first time I came across this expression was when I was doing my Fantasy Holiday Mon Facebook in 2021.
I had started it all in 2020, just before the Covid Lockdowns we were preparing to go on the trip of a life time, the culmination of which would have been to see the Terracotta Army in China.
That came to a crashing halt, and we were stuck at home. So I thought what the heck, I’ll write about the holiday I’d really like to do. So, I did.
The thing was, that I enjoyed it so much that when I finished it, I wanted to do something else, so I wrote about something else that I would really like to do, a tour of all the mainland states of the USA.
I bought a book a short history of the USA, it was during this that I encountered the term The Louisiana Purchase – of course no idea what it was so I did a bit of research. It turns out that sometime in the 1800’s The thirteen states that were The United States bought a huge chunk of land that was in the centre of Continental North America massively increasing the size of the USA as it was then.
The thing is, that there is something about the phrase that appeals to me, but I can’t explain what – it’s just the phrase, not its meaning. Can you explain that? Because I can’t.
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