Re: [talk-au] Questions: faint and one-way walking tracks

[John Smith]

--- On Sat, 25/7/09, Liz <ed...@billiau.net> wrote:

> Those Eurocentric guys remind me of the tales of the 18th
> Century scientists 
> learning about the playtpus - didn't fit anything they
> knew, so had to be a 
> fake.

I'm pretty sure the idea of a "town common" comes from the brits, but I have no 
idea if it extended any further in europe although the yanks ended up with some 
version of it but if I remember correctly it was more market/early sale yard 
type stuff, eg Boston Commons


      

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