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Failed to connect to MySQL: (1203) User howardkn already has more than 'max_user_connections' active connectionsPath: ...!weretis.net!feeder9.news.weretis.net!news.quux.org!eternal-september.org!feeder3.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Paul S Person Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.written Subject: Re: Pearls Before Swine: Uncle Is Not Good With Money Date: Sat, 11 Jan 2025 09:45:48 -0800 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 44 Message-ID: References: <108d8f06-d39e-25dd-5cea-9c7ca854c816@example.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Injection-Date: Sat, 11 Jan 2025 18:46:06 +0100 (CET) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="6d88b7dcd19b1df3977cf3b9419dd258"; logging-data="770063"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX1+xRs3u50K5alUaL7eGBrX+whAIfOlvOUU=" User-Agent: ForteAgent/8.00.32.1272 Cancel-Lock: sha1:RJ2L+yXMLoeuD5/kZHsSdOx24FY= Bytes: 2922 On Sat, 11 Jan 2025 13:35:28 +0100, D wrote: >On Fri, 10 Jan 2025, Bobbie Sellers wrote: >> Actually Russia should be part of the Ukrainian State if you >> go back far enough in History. But the Ukrainian nation sparked = Russia. >> Kiev should be the capital. Most of Russian history started with Kiev. > >This is incorrect. Ukraine and Russia should be part of the Swedish=20 >kingdom! > >https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rurik > >According to the chronicle, Rurik was one of the Rus', a Varangian = tribe.=20 >Most historians believe that the Rus' were of Scandinavian origin,[13]=20 >more specifically from what is currently coastal eastern Sweden around = the=20 >eighth century.[14] According to the prevalent theory, the name Rus' is=20 >derived from an Old Norse term for "the men who row", from an older name= =20 >for the Swedish coastal area of Roslagen.[15][16] While I was waiting for my Russian Basic class to begin, I did some reading. I found out a lot about Siberian folk religions but I also found the Scandanavian connection; indeed, IIRC, what I read suggested that a fair number of common Russian names for people are derived from Scandanavia. Among other things. This gives the impressiion that the Great Russians are Swedes, and the Little Russans (Belarus) [1] are the real Russians.=20 Another theory is that they are, in fact, Finns. [1] Also known as "White Russians" -- but not in the political sense, that is, not as contrasted with the "Red Russians" in the post-WWI Civil War. --=20 "Here lies the Tuscan poet Aretino, Who evil spoke of everyone but God, Giving as his excuse, 'I never knew him.'"