OT random interesting facts.

[CTMilller]

And New York, the city, was named after the Duke of York not the city in Yorkshire nor the Archbishop of York. As mentioned earlier New York was previously New Amsterdam until we nicked it off the Dutch

That's what I always understood, too. The Dutch, led by one Peter Stuyvesant, bought it from a local tribe for fourpence ha'penny (and you could always get cigarettes after that....)