//Hi Danny! //
on *27.08.03* at *20:13:31* you wrote in the area *MOSCOW_OKLAHOMA*
a message to *Roman Lyubchak*
about *"Today's_History"*.

 RL>> its 300th anniversary. And there is an interesting thing that is common
 RL>> between St. Petersburg and New York: both of the towns were founded by
 RL>> the shape of Amsterdam. 

 DC> I'm not sure what you mean by "the shape of Amsterdam". 
I am  guessing
 DC> that you mean "founded by the Dutch".  

Probably I was wrong about New York, but Peter the 1st who founded St.
Petersburg liked Holland and especially Amsterdam, so he intended his
"paradise" to be like Holland capital.

 DC> Peter Minuit "bought" Manhattan Island from the natives.  

Who was Peter Minuit?

 DC> If you look at the river running straight south into New  York City
 DC> (usually abreviated as NYC), you will note that  it is the Hudson River.
 DC> It was named after Henry Hudson,  an explorer for the Dutch.  

BTW, we have a special Russian pronouncing of this name, which is not close to
the original and wchih I personally don`t really like for this. It is
"Gud'zon", with a stress on the last syllable.

 DC> If you have a good map, check out the names of the cities  that lie along
 DC> that valley.  And, at Albany, follow the  river that flows into the
 DC> Hudson River from the west.   That one is the Mohawk.  
 DC> I hope this works for a starter...  

I have looked through all my maps but no one of them is detailed enough...

Bye ..
               Roman Lyubchak


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