[PW] Re: ?Yuri Gagarin's brother

John P. Dyson dyson at indiana.edu
Thu Jun 29 08:27:27 PDT 2006


I asked Babelfish to translate "What time is it?" from English to 
Spanish. I got
“¿Cuándo es?” The correct answer, of course, is "11:27."

John Dyson


Quoting Chana Lajcher - for Stumpers <chana at jct.ac.il>:

> You know that Babelfish can read Russian!
>
> http://babelfish.altavista.com/babelfish/tr?
>
>
> Very useful for exactly this type of search.  You won't be become Tolstoy
> but you'll be able to skim a website.
>
> Chana Lajcher - Library Director
> Jerusalem College of Technology
> Jerusalem, Israel
> chana at jct.ac.il
> lajcher at jct.ac.il
>
> On Thu, 29 Jun 2006, Ellen Cousins wrote:
>
>> Date: Thu, 29 Jun 2006 07:58:46 -0700
>> From: Ellen Cousins <ellen at smithie.com>
>> Reply-To: list at project-wombat.org
>> To: list at project-wombat.org
>> Subject: [PW] Re: ?Yuri Gagarin's brother
>>
>> This page says:
>>
>> There were four children in the family:
>> Valentin - elder brother, Zinaida ? sister, Yuriy and Boris who was a
>> younger brother.
>>
>> http://www.gctc.ru/eng/gagarin/biogr.htm
>>
>> Ellen C.
>>
>>
>>
>> Stacey Marien wrote:
>> > Folks,
>> >
>> > I have a patron who wants to know Yuri Gagarin's brothers names - the only
>> > thing I have been able to find out in all our biographical information is
>> > that he did have 2 older siblings - but no names.THis is a real stumper!
>> > Thanks for any help
>> >
>> >Stacey
>> >
>> >
>> > Stacey Marien
>> > Business and Economics Librarian
>> > American University Library
>> > 4400 Massachusetts Ave, NW
>> > Washington, DC 20016
>> > smarien at american.edu
>> > (202)885-3842
>> > (202)885-1317 - Fax
>> > AIM: staceyann370
>> >
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