Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!cs.utexas.edu!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!ukma!randy From: randy@ms.uky.edu (Randy Appleton) Newsgroups: comp.misc Subject: Re: Language Naming Contest Message-ID: <14141@s.ms.uky.edu> Date: 13 Feb 90 06:16:04 GMT References: <19359@grebyn.com> Reply-To: randy@ms.uky.edu (Randy Appleton) Organization: U of Kentucky, Mathematical Sciences Lines: 14 In article jeffd@ficc.uu.net (jeff daiell) writes: >Ted, didn't Potempkin construct those villages on *behalf* of his >government, to fool *foreign* visitors? I'm certainly not condoning >his actions - just trying to set things straight (if, that is, my >memory is correct). In fact, didn't the Russians name a warship >after him? Or was that just in a movie? > Thank you for not coercing. Potempkin was the lover of Catherine the Great, of Russia. She had him take tour of the Ukraine, to sort of "scope it out". (It was a new conquest.) Well, the local's would fix up the villeges that he was to visit, and in fact they fooled him. This is all from memory, but I think it's right.