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Show Old Cities' New Names Thoese of us who got our smattering smat-tering of political geography back in the nineteenth century have feen much of it repealed by the changes which have followed the world war. The map of Europe as we im-pr;:f-.ctly knew it is now something vastly different. The names of several of the voild's most famous capitals have been changed, some of them twice. St. Petersbug was changed to Petrcgrad early in the World War, and after the rise cf Lenin to power pow-er it was called Leningrad, and so remains. Norways capital Chris-. ir m i ' 1 ..ana. .reverted to its ancient name of Osio. Pekln or Peking wa-changed wa-changed to Peiping, and some say Peping is the present form. Now we hear that the old favorite favor-ite spelling test, Constantinople, has been abolished, and that Turkish Turk-ish city, no longer the capital, is henceforth to be known as Istam-bul, Istam-bul, after discarding at various times its former names of Stam-boul, Stam-boul, Byzance, Byzantium, etc. But we should worry. So long as they dont change Washington to Hoovergrad or GrundyviUe. |