--- dsk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > You're
right about the battles being waged! Recently
> I read about the
> current battle over maps, and how certain countries
> are always at the
> top and others at the bottom (and the inferences
> sometimes made from
> those positions). According to the people trying to
> get Rand McNally and
> other big mapmakers to reconsider the way they show
> the world, British
> (I think) mapmakers long ago decided on the
> orientation we're all used
> to seeing and now we take those views of the world
> as "the way it is".

Yeah, but if they turned it the other way, the writing
would be upside down! ;)



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Catherine
Toronto

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