We should remember that there was once a discipline called natural philosophy. Unfortunately, this discipline seems not to exist today. It has been renamed science, but science of today is in danger of losing much of the natural philosophy aspect. Hannes Alfvén
I love the music from Nat King Cole, BB King, Albert King... When I think of it, I wouldn't mind being renamed Angus King. Angus Young
Pope Pius XII was meant to go and castigate Hitler for being a [air quotes] "Genocidal Fuckhead ... [air quotes again] with bunny rabbit ears". But he didn't, he wimped out, and for that history has renamed that Pope as "Pope Gutless Bastard I." Eddie Izzard
When Andropov became First Secretary of Central Committee of CPSU, he ordered the town renamed Partgrad. It's hard to guess, how long will that name endure. Aleksandr Zinovyev
The Stalin Square and Stalin Prospect were renamed Lenin Square and Lenin Prospect. The statue of Stalin was remade into statue of Lenin. Aleksandr Zinovyev
After the death of Stalin the town was renamed Grazhdansk. But this name didn't hold out more than a couple of years: then was the town given the name of Khrushchev himself. For a certain period after the deposal of Khrushchev the town didn't have any name at all. Aleksandr Zinovyev