LOL On Sun, Mar 6, 2011 at 2:14 PM, Eric Weir <[email protected]> wrote: > > 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. >
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