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Column #62 Ottawa, Canada - Dartoids World
Ask any number of American grade school children to name the capitol of our friendly neighbor to the north and, undoubtedly, as many will scribble down "Toronto" as will know the correct answer. Considering that nearly as many of these kids think Judge Wapner is a Supreme Court justice and (if you can believe Robin Williams) that it's Barbara Bush's face -- not George Washington's -- which adorns our one dollar bank note, the common inability to pull "Ottawa" from one's brain when asked to list the capitol cities of the world is probably just as much a commentary on the failure of the American educational system as it is on the poor job Canada's done to promote its seat of federal power. Still, whatever the reason for it, the fact remains that Canada's capitol city is one of the more obscure of the world.