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Subject: Sounds like it's best left as it is with the Greenwich Meridian in the centre
Author: Jim (Canada)	[ Next Thread \| Previous Thread \| Next Message \| Previous Message ] Date Posted: 01:21:14 12/08/04 Wed In reply to: Ian (Australia) 's message, "where to split the globe" on 21:51:53 12/07/04 Tue [ Next Thread \| Previous Thread \| Next Message \| Previous Message ]

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[> [> [> Subject: Only in the same sense that London would make the best FC capital...

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Ed Harris (Venezia)
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Date Posted: 01:44:28 12/08/04 Wed

... it's just the line of least resistance, because it involves making the least changes. I have no problem with the centre of the map moving to some other meridien, and I'm from the only Dominion which shares a longitude (well, almost) with the British Isles!

We must never let lack of imagination interfere with this project, Jim. London is the old capital, the British Isles are the Motherland, England and Scotland and Wales and Ireland are all embedded so deep in our cultural consciousness, and, in my colony at least, we were hardly able to evaluate ourselves at all except by comparing and contrasting ourselves with the Old Country... but none of this is a reason just to keep things as they have always been.

More importantly, however much sense it might make to keep certain aspects of the Old Order, such as London as a capital, it is not necessarily the way forward, since people in the former dominions will baulk at the thought however logic it is. Shove the centre of your map at 45 degrees West and good luck to you.

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[> [> [> [> Subject: Ed, you are South African, aren't you?
Author: Jim (Canada) [ Edit \| View ]	Date Posted: 03:57:12 12/08/04 Wed [ Post a Reply to This Message ]

[> [> [> [> [> Subject: Originally... been in Blighty for years and years, though
Author: Ed Harris (Venezia) [ Edit \| View ]	Date Posted: 12:32:34 12/08/04 Wed [ Post a Reply to This Message ]