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Kings of the U.S.A.

10/28/2014

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As it turns out, the Kansas City Royals, currently battling it out in the World Series, were named for the American Royal Livestock Show, an annual show that has taken place each October in Kansas City since 1899. That means they were not named for British royalty. But I'm not sure of the origin of the Kansas City Monarchs, a Negro League baseball team.

We seem to be a country that loves royalty, whether British royalty, Hollywood royalty or faux royalty. I thought it would be interesting to capture that, to find a way to make the point that we're still overwhelmed hby royalty in this country. One way to do so, I felt, was to compile a list of Kings in the U.S.A., which turns out (according to my unscientific study) to be the most popular royal title in the country, far more popular than Queen (sorry, Latifah), Prince (no offense, the singer once again known as), other royal title.

Without further ado (since no one ever says, "That was a nice introduction but it could have used more 'ado's'), "Here's my list of the Kings of the U.S.A.

·       King of Beers

·       King of Pop

·       “King of Queens”

·       Kings of Leon

·       King Kong

·       Don King

·       Larry King

·       Billie Jean King

·       Martin Luther King, Jr.

·       Rodney King

·       Burger King

·       LA Kings

·       Sacramento Kings

·       One Kings Lane

·       King City, OR

·        “Pawn Kings”

·       “Auction Kings”

·       B.B. King

·       Stephen King

·       Papaya King

·       
The Sausage King of Chicago

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