Hi, Micheal!  Recently you wrote in a message to Ardith Hinton:   
      
    AH>  ... as Alexander says, the old name is probably   
    AH>  more familiar to many of us who live elsewhere   
    AH>  & who attended school before the name change.   
      
   MMD>  Simbirsk was renamed to Ulyanovsk in 1924.   
      
      
              That long ago?  I should have guessed... [sheepish grin].   
      
      
      
   MMD>  I am not sure that nowadays we can meet somebody   
   MMD>  who remembered thid time :\   
      
      
              Uh-huh.  Although I'm old enough to understand traditional grammar,   
   I'm not old enough to brag about my age yet....  :-))   
      
      
      
   MMD>  I don't know these people, really. Some teachers in my   
   MMD>  school was a child at this time, but they did not like   
   MMD>  talk about it.   
      
      
              I think a few of my teachers may have been children at this time as   
   well.  However, it seemed to me as a student that what folks Over Here thought   
   they knew about the USSR was sketchy and/or hopelessly outdated.   
      
              Under a Communist regime I reckon it was safer for teachers to keep   
   their mouths shut.  As a former public school teacher, I understand that.  I'm   
   glad we can freely communicate with one another in echomail nowadays.  And I'm   
   sure you'll forgive me if I have a bit of catching up to do sometimes....  :-)   
      
      
      
    AH>  During my lifetime a lot of persons, places, things, and   
    AH>  ideas have had their names changed.  I find it hard to   
    AH>  keep up after awhile... [chuckle].   
      
   MMD>  Everything is changing. Some things can be changed   
      
   MMD>  in a one year...   
         |in one year   
      
   MMD>  Modern world is very fast.   
         |The modern world   
      
      
              Yes.  North American joke... mother sends child on an errand to the   
   corner store.  Child returns home & says the building has been torn down.  :-Q   
      
      
      
      
   --- timEd/386 1.10.y2k+   
    * Origin: Wits' End, Vancouver CANADA (1:153/716)