-remove- (Mhoulsby) wrote in message ...
This last comment is typically astute. Of course "Lvov" used to be "Lwow" when
it was part of the Kingdom of Poland (a land whose eastern border has, in the
past, *crossed*, and been crossed by, its western border...)

Historical Poland has sounded like an instrument being played frequently by
"the wind of change".

"The wind of change is blowing through this continent."
--Harold Macmillan (3 February 1960, speech in Cape Town, South Africa)

Yet Poland has not been the only country with quite elastic boundaries.
And the Poles have not been the only people to make noises whenever they have
been squeezed too hard from the outside.

"We are the sport of destiny."
--William Makepeace Thackeray (Barry Lyndon)

--Nick