Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Fri, 27 Oct 2000 09:06:30 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Fri, 27 Oct 2000 09:06:20 -0400 Received: from ns.dce.bg ([212.50.14.242]:9993 "HELO home.dce.bg") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id ; Fri, 27 Oct 2000 09:06:08 -0400 Message-ID: <39F97DAE.36659B35@dce.bg> Date: Fri, 27 Oct 2000 16:05:50 +0300 From: Petko Manolov Organization: Deltacom Electronics X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.75 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.4.0-test10 i686) X-Accept-Language: en, bg MIME-Version: 1.0 To: David Weinehall CC: Tigran Aivazian , "Richard B. Johnson" , Linux kernel Subject: Re: Off-Topic (or maybe on-topic) In-Reply-To:

<20001027145650.B27262@khan.acc.umu.se> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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 - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/