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From: markb@sdcrdcf.UUCP (Mark Biggar)
Newsgroups: net.physics
Subject: Re: Re:  A Question Regarding Black Holes
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Date: Thu, 15-Aug-85 17:22:57 EDT
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Reply-To: markb@sdcrdcf.UUCP (Mark Biggar)
Organization: System Development Corp. R+D, Santa Monica
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Summary: 

Actually Russians refer to black holes as frozen or collapsed stars
because the phrase "black hole" when translated directly into russian
is considered obscene (i.e. meaning A**h*le).

Mark Biggar
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