Subject: Re: New member says hi!<br/>
Date: May 24, 2001 @ 19:08<br/>
Author: Peter Smaardijk (&quot;Peter Smaardijk&quot; &lt;smaardijk@...&gt;)<br/>
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<div id="ygrps-yiv-1553558829">Hi Michael. The stuff you come up with suits this group perfectly. <br/>
This is precisely the off beat things we occupy ourselves with.<br/>
<br/>
<blockquote><span title="qreply"> --- In BoundaryPoint@y..., michaelstride@h... wrote:<br/>
&gt; 1) A bit of Canada in Northern France. I believe it might be more <br/>
&gt; than just land given for a military cemetary after the first world <br/>
&gt; war. It&#39;s mentioned in a book that I don&#39;t have access to till next <br/>
&gt; week.<br/>
<br/>
Sounds like Vimy. There is a huge (and I mean HUGE) Canadian war <br/>
memorial thing there. 35 m high it is. There is a cemetary as well. <br/>
According to a small book I have, 11285 Canadians were killed here in <br/>
the battle for this hill in 1917.<br/>
<br/>
&gt; 2) A Belgian island on a lake in Italy. When I was in Belgium <br/>
someone <br/>
&gt; mentioned this oddity to me, seems like a church was put on an <br/>
island <br/>
&gt; in Italy, but I know no more than that! Sounds mad I know!<br/>
<br/>
Completely mad! I hope it&#39;s true. Can you or anyone else give us more <br/>
on this?<br/>
<br/>
&gt; 3) A room in the Savoy? or some other hotel in London that is <br/>
&gt; Yugoslavian (as was). Evidently in order for a monarch to rule <br/>
&gt; Yugoslavia they must be born on Yugoslavian &#39;soil&#39; so the British <br/>
&gt; gave a room to Yugoslavia when a prince was born.....sounds a bit <br/>
&gt; like an embassy kind of deal going on, but who knows?<br/>
<br/>
Sounds like (having read your follow-up) the room was just <br/>
Yugoslavian for one day. And anyway, what would it be nowadays? <br/>
Yugoslavian still? Serbian? Something else? A room-restricted civil <br/>
war is all we need...<br/>
<br/>
&gt; 4) The security/customs posts at the Channel Tunnel between France <br/>
&gt; and England. Each country has a bit of land in the other for <br/>
security <br/>
&gt; checks.<br/>
&gt; I hope these are of interest, and if I&#39;m totally out of order in <br/>
&gt; posting this please let me know! regards Michael<br/>
<br/>
Way out of order ;-). Keep it up!<br/>
<br/>
Peter S. </span></blockquote></div>