Doug Franklin wrote: >On 2010-03-16 16:23, Bob W wrote: >>>> St Petersburg (formerly known as Leningrad) >>> >>> Now that just strikes me as funny and sort of ironic. Wasn't >>> it known as St. Petersburg for quite a while before the Reds >>> renamed it to Leningrad? >> >> There was a joke during the Communist era that had an old man saying "I was >> born in St Petersburg, grew up in Petrograd and have lived all my adult life >> in Leningrad. I hope to die in St Petersburg". For many people it came true, >> happily. > >I have a horrifying "vision" that I might learn to know that feeling >before I pass from this Earth.
If you're waiting for them to change New York back to New Amsterdam I wouldn't hold my breath. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
