There's a group of streets just around the corner that are named after townsin North Africa, where the Australian soldiers battled the Germans in WW2.
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BargeArse Maker of fine Trouser Trumpets since 1863,
Tue 27 Jan 2009, 6:47,
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In the area where I used to live in Amsterdamall the streets were named after Indonesian islands.
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mofaha ┐( ˘_˘)┌ ʅ(́◡◝)ʃ,
Tue 27 Jan 2009, 6:53,
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