Place names can be charged with politics. Conquest sometimes leads to renaming, sometimes revolution, and sometimes just nationalism. The city which gave birth to Polish Solidarity was known as "Danzig" when the Germans ruled it, and is now called "Gdansk" by Poland. The Japanese and most of the world call the body of water between Japan and the mainland of Asia the "Sea of Japan". The South Koreans call it the "East Sea", and the North Korans call it the "East Sea of Korea". The city founded by Peter the Great was called "St. Petersburg", then "Leningrad", and now "St. Petersburg" again.But the place name which generates the most email to American Thinker is the body of water between Iran and Saudi Arabia (and other emirates). It is called the "Persian Gulf" by most of the world, including the UN, but is called the "Arabian Gulf" by some Arab nationalists, going back to the day of...(Read Full Post)