https://www.tampabay.com/news/st-peters ... t-ukraine/
According to legend, a coin toss led to the naming of the Sunshine City after St. Petersburg, Russia.
At the turn of the 20th century, John Constantine Williams and Peter Demens, considered the co-founders of St. Petersburg, flipped a coin to see who would name the city. Demens, an exiled Russian aristocrat, reportedly won the coin toss and named it after the town where he grew up. The cities were incorporated 200 years apart.
St. Petersburg, Russia is one of St. Petersburg, Florida’s three sister cities, along with Takamatsu, Japan, Isla Mujeres, Mexico and Figueres, Spain.
Mayor Ken Welch said in a statement Tuesday that his city will maintain its relationship with its Russian sister-city despite the country’s incursion into Ukraine. It is not clear how the sister cities have interacted recently.
Ain't that some chit?
St Pete Sister City
Now you know how St. Pete got it's political bent.
When everything that comes out of your piehole is politics, politics, politics... YOU have a problem
Had he lost the coin toss what would the name have been? GARY
probably some Indian word that translates into spur off the dick
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Firemedic2000
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In the Government's/Elitist eye's I'm a Terrorist for believing in the Constitution and taking an oath to defend it instead of POLITICAL LEADERS
In the Government's/Elitist eye's I'm a Terrorist for believing in the Constitution and taking an oath to defend it instead of POLITICAL LEADERS
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Sundayknight
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I thought Oviedo FL was a sister city to Oviedo , Spain.
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I thought going to Tropicana Field was almost like the movie set of Black Hawk Down.
People sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf. - George Orwell