IKONOS image of the week: Jiuquan Space Launch Center, China (Forwarded)

OM wrote:

On Mon, 13 Oct 2003 17:46:56 -0500, Pat Flannery
wrote:



Henry Spencer wrote:



Wups, yes, I believe you're correct. Been quite a while since I read
about this...



I'll be damned...somebody finally won one!



...Wait! Wait! I missed this one! What did Henry get corrected on??


OM



Henry said that Lenin came to MOSCOW, not PETROGRAD, via "The Sealed Train".

Pat

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Henry Spencer wrote:
Wups, yes, I believe you're correct. Been quite a while since I read
about this...
I'll be damned...somebody finally won one!

Sorry, Pat, but the rules require the correction be on-topic for
sci.space.
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On Wed, 15 Oct 2003 18:36:44 -0400, Kevin Willoughby wrote:

Sorry, Pat, but the rules require the correction be on-topic for
sci.space.

Then again, I think that figuring out what's on-topic here is harder than
catching Henry in a misstatement!

"OM"

...Wait! Wait! I missed this one! What did Henry get corrected on??

Whether Lenin received a cold reception in Moscow, or Petrograd. Yeesh.

On Wed, 15 Oct 2003 18:48:01 -0400, Rick DeNatale wrote:

On Wed, 15 Oct 2003 18:36:44 -0400, Kevin Willoughby wrote:

Sorry, Pat, but the rules require the correction be on-topic for
sci.space.

Then again, I think that figuring out what's on-topic here is harder than
catching Henry in a misstatement!

Well, apparently discussion of the current and future Chinese space program is
on-topic in sci.space.history, mostly because people don't want to go to
another newsgroup to read about it....

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