Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!nisca.ircc.ohio-state.edu!hpuxa.ircc.ohio-state.edu!bobd From: bobd@hpuxa.ircc.ohio-state.edu (Bob Debula) Newsgroups: comp.misc Subject: Re: Language Naming Contest Message-ID: <769@nisca.ircc.ohio-state.edu> Date: 13 Feb 90 15:53:24 GMT References: <19359@grebyn.com> Sender: news@nisca.ircc.ohio-state.edu Reply-To: bobd@hpuxa.ircc.ohio-state.edu Organization: The Ohio State University (IRCC) Lines: 17 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? > If I remember right there was a Russian battleship named Potemkin. It became famous because of a mutiny aboard. ========================================================================== Bob DeBula | Internet: bobd@hpuxa.ircc.ohio-state.edu The Ohio State University | Disclaimer: These are my views, not the U's Davros sez: When my Daleks compute they use X-TER-MI-NALS!