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2003-08-26 India-Pakistan

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Posted by Fred Pruitt 2003-08-26 00:33|| || Front Page|| [13 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Gateway of India, eh?

Wonder if there's a Dell of India. Or an Hewlett-Packard...

Posted by Ed Becerra 2003-8-26 1:28:57 AM|| 2003-8-26 1:28:57 AM|| Front Page Top

#2 ergo the Gateway cow symbol

Posted by Frank G 2003-8-26 11:21:02 AM|| 2003-8-26 11:21:02 AM|| Front Page Top

#3 Sad that Fox News has been calling Mumbai Bombay for the last couple of days. You would think they could purchase a new Atlas. It's been Mumbai for more than a few years now.

Posted by Yank 2003-8-26 3:24:32 PM|| 2003-8-26 3:24:32 PM|| Front Page Top

#4 They call MÃ¼nchen Munich, too, and this city hasn't changed its name in about 800 years or so. You don't hear any complaints from Milano, Roma, Athinai, Praha, Warszawa or Moskva either.

Posted by True German Ally 2003-8-26 3:54:05 PM|| 2003-8-26 3:54:05 PM|| Front Page Top

#5 Leningrad is called St. Petersburg because it changed is name back to the original - St. Petersburg. During glorious days of Soviet Union a lot of old places were renamed - to commemorate criminals of the Soviet State and obliterate the past.

I will be damned if I call Bombay Mumbai. Every nation has their own names for other nation's places and towns. You know of Auschwitz and Birkenau, but for inhabitants of the existing towns they were always Oswiecim and Treblinka. This is another example of PC run amok. TGA is right.

Posted by Katherine 2003-8-26 11:55:22 PM|| 2003-8-26 11:55:22 PM|| Front Page Top

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