>>1383631
love these
>>1383516
If anyone were to read some American history, they would quickly discover that RI's deep deep deep in the thickets & been for quite a long long time:
>https://infogalactic.com/info/Rhode_Island
This article is about the U.S. state. For the former British colony, see Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations.
Rhode Island (Listeni/ˌroʊd ˈaɪlᵻnd/ or /roʊˈdaɪlᵻnd/), officially the State of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations,[6] is a state in the New England region of the United States.
Origin of the name
Despite its name, most of Rhode Island is located on the mainland of the United States. The official name of the state is State of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations, which is derived from the merger of two colonies.
Rhode Island colony was founded on what is now commonly called Aquidneck Island, the largest of several islands in Narragansett Bay, and included the settlements of Newport and Portsmouth.[9]
Providence Plantations was the name of the colony founded by Roger Williams in the area now known as the city of Providence.[10]
It is unclear how Aquidneck Island came to be known as Rhode Island, although there are two popular theories.
Explorer Giovanni da Verrazzano in 1524 noted the presence of an island near the mouth of Narragansett Bay, which he likened to the island of Rhodes (part of modern Greece).[11] Subsequent European explorers were unable to precisely identify the island that Verrazzano had named.
The Pilgrims who later colonized the area assumed that Verrazzano's "Rhodes" was Aquidneck.