Hawkjoe said:Does anyone know where the "Concordia" name originated from? (The history of the name).
Oxford English Dictionary said:concord
• noun 1 agreement; harmony. 2 a treaty.
— ORIGIN Latin concordia, from concors ‘of one mind’.
Bandit LOAF said:... and there's a Concordia University in Austin, which is almost certainly where the carrier got her name.
Ahem, Montreal is in Canada...Don said:Also there is one in Montreal....and another one in Canada, i think?
Bandit LOAF said:They're all over the place -- throughout the world. Wing Commander was developed in Austin, though, so that one is important for our purposes.
are there still programmers from the original wing commanders still living there loaf?
just curious, sorry to get off subject of thread, carry on.
Or perhaps someone just liked the name, Concordia...
Bandit LOAF said:(WC2 has at least two other locally-derived ship names, the TCS Austin and the TCS Waterloo.)
Bandit LOAF said:There are many cities all over the world named Waterloo... and, of course, the most famous occurance of the name is the battle where Napoleon was finally defeated.
In the closest-to-Origin case, though, Austin was named Waterloo before becoming the capital of Texas, and lots of things in town use the name today.