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From: David Weinehall <tao@acc.umu.se>
To: Tigran Aivazian <tigran@veritas.com>
Cc: Petko Manolov <petkan@dce.bg>,
	"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 15:36:09 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20001027153609.D27262@khan.acc.umu.se> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20001027151753.C27262@khan.acc.umu.se> <Pine.LNX.4.21.0010271423290.10504-100000@saturn.homenet>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.21.0010271423290.10504-100000@saturn.homenet>; from tigran@veritas.com on Fri, Oct 27, 2000 at 02:24:53PM +0100

On Fri, Oct 27, 2000 at 02:24:53PM +0100, Tigran Aivazian wrote:
> On Fri, 27 Oct 2000, David Weinehall wrote:
> > and 1924 the city got renamed again, this time to Leningrad.
> 
> ok, then a quiz question - was it renamed before or after Lenin's death?
> (hint, Lenin died in 1924).

After his death. And the city was renamed back to St. Petersburg in
1991. With a 5 days-a-year long exception where the name
Leningrad is used in parallel, in rememberance of WWII.


/David
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  reply	other threads:[~2000-10-27 13:36 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
2000-10-27 13:17       ` David Weinehall
2000-10-27 13:24         ` Tigran Aivazian
2000-10-27 13:36           ` David Weinehall [this message]
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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