Bob Walkden wrote:
> This is our favourite sport here in Europe. Knowing how good Americans
> are at geography we like to test them every few years by renaming our
> countries and making the new names as similar as possible to ones that
> already exist: there are 2 Macedonias, Moldavia, Moldova, Moravia,
> Ruthenia, Ruritania, Russia, Byelorussia, Jutland, Rutland. We do this
> to confuse your president.
>
Please, don't try to confuse our President. He requires no help on that score.
As a Ruthenian (or Rusyn)-American, however, I must point out that we do not have our
own country, nor have we
ever had one. As peasants, with no army or military tradition, we have been overrun
and occupied by our larger
and more aggressive neighbors, including Hungary, Austria, Russia, Poland, Ukraine,
and even Slovakia, for
millennia. As a result, there are more people of Rusyn heritage in North America
today than in Europe. We do
have an element named after us, however, Ruthenium.<g>
Dan
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