On Thu, Dec 3, 2015 at 6:52 PM, John <[email protected]> wrote:
> Besides I thought Leica in Russian was the little dog they sent up in
> the satellite?

Yes, indeed.  Laika was the first cosmonaut:
http://time.com/3546215/laika-1957/

They are separate words in Russian:

leika = watering can
laika = kid skin
leica = expensive capitalistic bling

Dan Matyola
http://www.pentaxphotogallery.com/danieljmatyola

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