From: word_chemist@hotmail.com   
      
   "Henry"  wrote in message   
   news:1hbggui.7tkwqu6pk7ntN%henry999@eircom.net...   
   > Joe Fineman  wrote:   
   >   
   > > ...a gang of   
   > > Volga boatmen (I suppose they were pirates of some kind)...   
   >   
   > Actually, the Volga boatmen were the labourers who pulled the boats   
   > through unnavigable stretches of the river.   
   >   
   > See the famous painting from the 1870s by Ilya Repin:   
   >   
   > http://www.auburn.edu/academic/liberal_arts/foreign/russian/art/repin-bo   
   > atmen.html   
   >   
   > This is one of my favourites. I have a print on the wall above my desk   
   > and every time I look at it I am reminded how lucky I was to be able to   
   > go to university.   
      
   I looked at it and though how lucky I was not be born in China.   
      
   ROBBIE   
      
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