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OK, then. The England cricket team was touring Australia when the Americans and Russians wiped each other out, and the Federation citizens are descended from the players plus the Barmy Army. The Australians
moved
somewhere else with better weather.
I had always assumed that Russia and America would fight it out across the Pacific or North Pole - after all, why go across Europe when the two countries are actually adjacent round that side? It's only because all the maps have America on the left and Europe etc on the right and we tend to think that that is the way of the world - not may maps have the Pacific in the middle.
Debbie
From: Deborah Day d.day@thefreeinternet.co.uk
I had always assumed that Russia and America would fight it out across the Pacific or North Pole - after all, why go across Europe when the two countries are actually adjacent round that side? It's only because all
the
maps have America on the left and Europe etc on the right and we tend to think that that is the way of the world - not may maps have the Pacific in the middle.
British atlases do. I have an American Hammond atlas on my shelves which puts the Americas in the middle, with the Eurasian continent split in two - Europe and Africa on the right hand side, Siberia and Asia on the left.
Neil
Neil Faulkner wrote:
From: Deborah Day d.day@thefreeinternet.co.uk
not may maps have the Pacific in the middle.
British atlases do. I have an American Hammond atlas on my shelves which puts the Americas in the middle, with the Eurasian continent split in two - Europe and Africa on the right hand side, Siberia and Asia on the left.
Curious. I'm used to seeing the Americas on the left, Eurasia on the right, the Atlantic more or less in the middle. I'm not sure I've seen an atlas with the Americas in the centre.
ObB7: I suppose Federation maps have Earth as the centre of the galaxy? Properly proportioned, or disproportionately large?
Mistral
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Neil Faulkner