The trade school is shuttered, the telephone booth is gone, the "Tool and Die" insignia on a factory has given way to lettering in an indecipherable Asian language.
Two flags were used during the period of Soviet occupation (1944 1989): immediately after the war, the flag consisted of a red field, golden hammer and sickle with the Latin characters LIETUVOS TSR (Lithuanian SSR in the Lithuanian language) above them in gold sans-serif lettering.
To eliminate outside influence, Qaddafi at one point removed foreign languages from schools and removed the Latin lettering street signs.
Here in the place some call Little Odessa, Russian is the language heard on the street, and even pizzerias have signs in Cyrillic lettering.
In Simferopol men on ladders removed the large gold Ukrainian-language lettering on the regional parliament.
In the Crimean capital, Simferopol, men on ladders removed the large gold Ukrainian-language lettering on the regional parliament.
"Raised lettering, pale nimbus".
My special craft was Roman lettering.
"Then I matched the gold leaf lettering".
It's a windbreaker, with gold lettering.
