Re: Double impact at K-T boundary ?

["vilandra@austin.rr.com" <villandra@austin.rr.com>]

The Ukraine is a geographical region with no distinct location or borders. 
It is the most important anthropological crossroads of Eurasia.   The 
Ukraine is located roughly north and/or west of the Black Sea.

Like similar names such as "Poland" and "Russia", the location of the 
political entity the Ukraine has changed hugely over time.

If you're talking about a particular event supposed to have happened in the 
Ukraine, you'd do better to get the name of a town or a geographical feature 
like a mountain range, river or lake.

Yours,
Villandra

Note:  Due to a wave of good people getting their-email addresses hijacked, 
I no longer sign my e-mails with my real name.   If you see a plea for help 
from Villandra, you'll know it isn't from me.
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Tim Williams" <tijawi@yahoo.com>
To: <dinosaur@usc.edu>
Cc: <tijawi@yahoo.com>
Sent: Monday, August 30, 2010 3:58 AM
Subject: Re: Double impact at K-T boundary ?


> Dann Pigdon <dannj@alphalink.com.au> wrote:
>
>
> > 'The' Ukraine? As opposed to the other false Ukraines?
> >
> > For consistancy, shouldn't they have also written 'the
> > Chicxulub', 'the Mexico' and 'the Boltysh'? :-)
>
>
> :-)
>
> Well, we (by which I mean the English-speaking world) do say "the 
> Netherlands" and "the Congo" and "the Gambia".  So the definite article is 
> still retained in the names of some countries.
>
> Although apparently in the case of Ukraine, just "Ukraine" is preferred 
> over "the Ukraine" these days.  Similarly, "the Sudan" is going out of 
> vogue in favor of simply "Sudan".
>
> But the Bronx will always be "the Bronx".   ;-)
>
>
> Cheers
>
> Tim