From: (Nick)
Date: 27/08/03 19:09 GMT Daylight Time
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-remove- (Mhoulsby) wrote in message
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"Two countries will go to war and one of them will win."

Not necessarily--sometimes the final (or the provisional) outcome is a draw
(even one claimed by lasting stalemate); sometimes both sides seem to lose.
Is war supposed to be a "zero-sum game"?

Allen Konigsberg... er... Kaliningrad...
(aka Woody Allen)

That *Kant* be so! :-)
Immanuel Kant (1724-1804) lived his entire life in Koenigsberg.

Here are links to Leonard Euler's solution of the famous problem in
graph theory of "the Seven Bridges of Koenigsberg":

http://mathforum.org/isaac/problems/bridges1.html
http://mathforum.org/isaac/problems/bridges2.html

That reminds me of an anecdote about a conversation between an Englishwoman
visiting the Soviet Union and her Intourist guide:

He : Madame, is this visit your first time in our beautiful country?
She: No, I happened to have been born in St. Petersburg.
He : Ah, my dear lady, you should not be misled by the capitalist propaganda.
You mean that you were born in Leningrad.
She: No, young man, now I wish that I had been born here in Leningrad.
But, actually, I was born in St. Petersburg.


You may know this story:

The Soviet Government was conducting a census.

One man completed his form thus:

Where were you born?

St. Petersburg

Where did you attain your majority?

Petrograd

Where do you live now?

Leningrad

Where would you like to live, if you had the choice?

St. Petersburg