thanks; new query
Prof Steven P Hill
s-hill4 at UIUC.EDU
Sat Jun 30 05:57:44 UTC 2007
Dear most helpful colleagues:
1. Please accept my thanks, all of you who advised me
about unsolicited E-Mail messages called "postcard from
Russia." Afer reading your feedback, I deleted, unopened,
the notice which I had received (offering me a "postcard"),
and in future I will immediately delete such notices, always
without clicking to "open."
2. Now, a new query, about crooks, crime, jails, prisons,
"camps," etc. In some of the literature I'm reading this summer,
I encounter references to "silence for sailors," if I take literally
that expression. But clearly it refers to a notorious JAIL or
PRISON called "Matrosskaia tishina."
Does anyone out there have some explanation, how a notorious
penal institution acquired such a curious name?
With gratitude,
Steven P Hill,
University of Illinois.
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