On Wed, Jan 02, 2013 at 04:03:37PM -0700, Jeff Ross wrote:
> On 1/2/13 3:56 PM, mxb wrote:
> >I think if you put District, the you should change Oblast to Province.
> 
> You may know more than me--I took that directly from wikipedia :-)

Oblast should not be translated IMO. It's a loanword in many languages.
Then there is Krai, which is sort of the same thing. No - best leave it
alone.

I would however drop "a village in ", doesn't add anything useful.

> 
> What should district be to be consistent and correct?
> 
> 
> >
> >//максим
> >
> >On 2 jan 2013, at 23:47, [email protected] wrote:
> >
> >>--- usr.bin/calendar/calendars/calendar.birthday    Sun Oct 16 09:09:27 2011
> >>+++ usr.bin/calendar/calendars/calendar.birthday.new        Wed Jan  2 
> >>15:41:39 2013
> >>@@ -11,7 +11,7 @@
> >>01/01       J.D. Salinger born, 1919
> >>01/01       Heinz Zemanek born in Vienna, Austria, 1920
> >>01/01       Dolores Haze (prototype for Lolita) born, 1935
> >>-01/02      Isaac Asimov born in Petrovichi, Russian SFSR (now part of 
> >>USSR), 1920
> >>+01/02      Isaac Asimov born in Petrovichi, a village in Shumyachsky 
> >>District of Smolensk Oblast, Russia, 1920
> >>01/03       J.R.R. Tolkien born, 1892
> >>01/04       George Washington Carver born in Missouri, 1864
> >>01/04       Jakob Grimm born, 1785

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