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Frank and Ernest by Thaves for May 19, 2011
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Transcript:
Frank says, "I brought you back a souvenir from the captial of California." Ernest says, "A 'Sacramemento'!"
From Wikipedia: .In either 1799 or 1808, the Spanish explorer Gabriel Moraga discovered and named the Sacramento Valley and the Sacramento River. A Spanish writer with the Moraga expedition wrote, "Canopies of oaks and cottonwoods, many festooned with grapevines, overhung both sides of the blue current. Birds chattered in the trees and big fish darted through the pellucid depths. The air was like champagne, and (the Spaniards) drank deep of it, drank in the beauty around them. âEs como el sagrado sacramento! (This is like the Holy Sacrament.)â The valley and the river were then christened after âthe Most Holy Sacrament of the Body and Blood of Christâ, referring to the Catholic sacrament of the Eucharist. So originally it would have been el sacramento, but got shortened, I guess..Like LA: itâs patron is the Blessed Virgin ( El Pueblo de Nuestra Señora la Reina de los Ăngeles del RĂo de PorciĂșncula = The Town of Our Lady the Queen of the Angels on the PorciĂșncula River), but somehow it got shortened to âThe Angelsâ.