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'Pyramids' discovered in Ukraine
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| 07 Sep 2006
| Helen Fawkes
Posted on 09/07/2006 4:34:27 AM PDT by Marius3188
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To: Marius3188
I used to live in a little town not far from Lugansk. I trust the scientists weren't confused by one of the many 'terrakoniki' out there ;-)
To: Marius3188
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posted on
09/07/2006 8:26:41 AM PDT
by
metmom
(Welfare was never meant to be a career choice.)
To: Marius3188
Obviously they must have been stolen from the Russians.
/knee-jerk Russian chauvinist mode
To: denydenydeny
Pyramids are a Russian "inwention."
To: struwwelpeter
what the heck is that mound??? that certainly doesn't look natural. Has anyone ever excavated around the area??
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posted on
09/07/2006 12:22:38 PM PDT
by
Mr. K
(Some days even my lucky rocketship underpants don't help...)
To: Mr. K
That's a 'terrakonik', also called a 'terrakon'. It's the junk that the coal mines dreg up. That particular one is from the 'Komsomolskaya' shaft which goes down 1800 meters.
An Indian company (Mittal?) recently has been reworking the tailings.
Friends over there said that they used to ski on them in wintertime, but the rest of the year they are dangerous.
To: denydenydeny
Obviously they must have been stolen from the Russians.
/knee-jerk Russian chauvinist mode
The Ukrainian word for 'Russian chauvinist' ;-)
To: struwwelpeter
I just returned from the Ukraine, and I know what you mean about the feeling towards the Russians. By the way, the "3" ( I know that's just a three, but am not sure how to do Cyrillic in html) is a Russian letter right? If I learned one thing it's not to use Russian letters in the Ukraine. Let me know if I'm totally wrong here though...
To: TexAgg_IE
The '3' is actually a Ukrainian 'z', the same as the 'z' in Belarusian, Bulgarian, Macedonian, Russian, and Serbian. Most of the Ukrainian alphabet is the same as the Russian, except for two versions of the 'i' and 'e'.
So that word would be 'Pizdets' (nasty nasty), pretty much the same word in Russian.
The language is very similar, too, but don't tell tell the Ukrainians that ;-).
I think the language historians have decided that Russian is derived from Ukrainian, and not vice versa.
Out in East Ukraine, the 'Donbas', the population almost exclusively speaks Russian and has little inclination to learn Ukrainian. Some people told me that that area was historically Russian, and that Khrushchev got drunk and re-drew the maps. Ukrainians, on the other hand, say that Stalin did his work well, so that the nation is pretty much split down the middle at the Dnepr, 50:50 Ukrainian/5th column.
Where were you at?
To: struwwelpeter
oh I see, thanks for the explanation.
I knew they didnt look natural.
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posted on
09/09/2006 4:28:36 PM PDT
by
Mr. K
(Some days even my lucky rocketship underpants don't help...)
To: Marius3188
Well, it was bound to get there sooner or later.
To: Larry Lucido
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09/09/2006 4:34:17 PM PDT
by
steveo
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