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Origin and figures linked to Copenhagen Asheville and Arthur’s Seat
The piece notes Copenhagen growing from a port on islets with Bishop Absalom credited as founder. It adds Asheville in North Carolina named after John Ashe a Revolutionary War prisoner who died of smallpox. It mentions Arthur’s Seat near Edinburgh as a hill where King Arthur watched the Pictish battle, and defines the Jerusalem artichoke as a tuberous perennial sunflower.
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Copenhagen
Denmark
Havn
Absalom
Asheville
N. C
John Ashe
Colonial Assembly
Arthur's Seat
Edinburgh
Scotland
Arthur of the
Round Table
Jerusalem