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by nullhack
1391 days ago
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"The Governor's lobbying, while ultimately successful, proved to be controversial. The controversy stemmed in part from the fact that governor's request violated a required waiting period of five years after a person's death prior to renaming a geographic feature; Piestewa had been killed earlier that year while deployed on active military duty in Iraq."
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piestewa_Peak#Name Googling "five years after death geographic feature" gives me a United States Geological Survey Source
https://www.usgs.gov/us-board-on-geographic-names/how-do-i If a monument could be named a day or a month after someone's death, that may create a Perverse Incentive for "early deaths" for brownie points... |
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