Yeah. On Mar 6, 2011, at 1:13 PM, Ann Sanfedele wrote:
> Thats a great story! > ann > > Igor Roshchin wrote: > >> I just realized that this story might be sound especially funny to PDMLers. >> >> >> First, historical background: >> In Russia, the flagman institution in Physics education is Moscow Institute >> of Physics and Technology (MIPT), so-called >> PhysTech. The main way of getting to it is by a suburban train >> (about 25 minutes from the one of the main railway stations in Moscow). >> The station where PhysTech is located is called "Novodachnaya". >> A lot of people (students, faculty) usually get off at it in the >> morning from 2 trains that arrive there between 8 and 9am. >> The previous station, where seemingly nothing significant is located >> (and usually much fewer people use it) called "Mark". >> >> There is a legend that tells why that station is called that way. >> One of the famous professors, Mark Aiserman (a world-reknown specialist >> and an author of a textbook on analytical mechanics) was afraid to miss >> his stop, and so, he was asking all the students and colleagues >> who he saw entering the train to remind him about the station. >> And since he was always taking the train at the same time, even the >> train engineer knew that, and was announcing via PA system: >> "Mark, the next station is Novodachnaya" So, the previous station started >> being called "Mark". >> >> Cheers, >> >> Igor >> >> >> > > > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Eric Weir Decatur, GA USA [email protected] -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
