Geography is a moving target. Only this week I learned that Dacca is now Dhaka.
Dacca joins all the other places that no longer exist [wink]: Peking, Canton, Siam, Bombay, Calcutta, Formosa, the Soviet Union, the German Democratic Republic, the Union of South Africa, Southern Rhodesia, Tanganyika, the Belgian Congo, the United Arab Republic, and so forth, with (no doubt) more to come.
And that’s all just the 20th century! Don’t get me started on Constantinople!
But at least science never changes. [maniacal laughter]
Geography is a moving target. Only this week I learned that Dacca is now Dhaka.
Dacca joins all the other places that no longer exist [wink]: Peking, Canton, Siam, Bombay, Calcutta, Formosa, the Soviet Union, the German Democratic Republic, the Union of South Africa, Southern Rhodesia, Tanganyika, the Belgian Congo, the United Arab Republic, and so forth, with (no doubt) more to come.
And that’s all just the 20th century! Don’t get me started on Constantinople!
But at least science never changes. [maniacal laughter]