On 2008-02-07, Roy Lanek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > By the way, to use wikipedia.org on geopolitics in general, and on the former > Soviet Union in particular, is like to use the Vatican as reference for > telling on ...?! the 'position of the lotus'; Microsoft on Ion; and Wander > [Switzerland] of the chocolate beverage Ovomaltine on the Russian vodka > Stolichnaya.
Trusting the actual content of wikipedia... *shudder*. But there's some hope that they can get the date of an actual event correct. (At least the Wikipedia pages on those subjects agreed with the February_7 listing, which is better than things often are.) > Moreover: good luck--but hey: good riddance--to call the *creation* of the EU > [perhaps incorporated Europe?] the "birth of an empire." Much lesser things are called empires. -- Tuomo
