From: Petko Manolov <petkan@dce.bg>
To: David Weinehall <tao@acc.umu.se>
Cc: Tigran Aivazian <tigran@veritas.com>,
"Richard B. Johnson" <root@chaos.analogic.com>,
Linux kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Off-Topic (or maybe on-topic)
Date: Fri, 27 Oct 2000 16:05:50 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <39F97DAE.36659B35@dce.bg> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.3.95.1001027083838.22807A-100000@chaos.analogic.com> <Pine.LNX.4.21.0010271344070.10504-100000@saturn.homenet> <20001027145650.B27262@khan.acc.umu.se>
David Weinehall wrote:
>
> You're VERY wrong here. St. Petersburg was the name before the Soviet
> Union was formed and Russia marched into the Baltics. When the takeover
> was made, the city was renamed Leningrad (after V.I. Lenin). When the
> Soviet Union finally fell to pieces and the Baltics retained their freedom,
> St. Petersburg retained its old name, which it got (if I'm not all wrong)
> from Peter the Great.
AFAIK Tigran is born in the Soviet Union and i thing he knows
the history of his own country better ;-)
Anyway, i am bulgarian and i also am used to call St. Petersburg
Leningrad ;-))
best,
Petkan
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2000-10-27 13:06 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2000-10-27 12:39 Off-Topic (or maybe on-topic) Richard B. Johnson
2000-10-27 12:48 ` Tigran Aivazian
2000-10-27 12:56 ` David Weinehall
2000-10-27 13:02 ` Tigran Aivazian
2000-10-27 13:04 ` Tigran Aivazian
2000-10-27 15:58 ` Dmitri Pogosyan
2000-10-27 13:05 ` Petko Manolov [this message]
2000-10-27 13:17 ` David Weinehall
2000-10-27 13:24 ` Tigran Aivazian
2000-10-27 13:36 ` David Weinehall
2000-10-27 16:25 ` Art Boulatov
2000-10-27 13:16 ` dave
2000-10-27 16:19 ` J. Dow
2000-10-27 23:49 ` Dr. Kelsey Hudson
2000-10-28 2:38 ` Gerhard Mack
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