Subject: Re: [BoundaryPoint] excuse me<br/>
Date: Jun 19, 2001 @ 00:40<br/>
Author: Brendan Whyte (&quot;Brendan Whyte&quot; &lt;brwhyte@...&gt;)<br/>
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<div id="ygrps-yiv-166771272">Could be Taba, on the Egyptian red sea coast.<br/>
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Do you REALLY want to go to Kashimir?<br/>
Could be very interesting... the wire, the electric fence, the searchlights, <br/>
the one legal crossing point along thousands of km of boundary between <br/>
nations of over 1 billion people...<br/>
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Thailand/burma could be interesting.<br/>
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Remember the BBC frontiers programme of 6 or 8 boundaries has already been <br/>
done:<br/>
US/Mex, Spa/Fra, Rus/Fin, Thai/Cam, SAfr/Moz, Ire/N.Ire, Cyp/TRNC.<br/>
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West Irian/PNG could be interesting. Bouganville/Solomons/PNG,<br/>
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pretty much any border is interesting..I guess the best thing would be two <br/>
from each continent, including Oceania (Like Bouganville).<br/>
2 europe, 2 Asia, 2 Africa, 2 N.America, 2 S.America, 2 Oceania and one <br/>
extra (US state and municipal boundaries, like Ellis Island, and how much <br/>
taxpayers money was spent on that legal fight) showing nationalism operates <br/>
at many levels.<br/>
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BW<br/>
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<blockquote><span title="ireply"> &gt;From: &quot;Doug Murray&quot; &lt;<a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="mailto:dmurray@...">dmurray@...</a>&gt;<br/>
&gt;Reply-To: <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="mailto:BoundaryPoint@yahoogroups.com">BoundaryPoint@yahoogroups.com</a><br/>
&gt;To: <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="mailto:BoundaryPoint@yahoogroups.com">BoundaryPoint@yahoogroups.com</a><br/>
&gt;Subject: Re: [BoundaryPoint] excuse me<br/>
&gt;Date: Mon, 18 Jun 2001 09:36:29 -0700<br/>
&gt;<br/>
&gt;<br/>
&gt;Hello all:<br/>
&gt;<br/>
&gt;Just finished attending the Banff Television Festival in Banff, Alberta<br/>
&gt;(I&#39;m still in Calgary).<br/>
&gt;<br/>
&gt;I was there to meet the people that make, buy, finance television <br/>
&gt;programming.<br/>
&gt;  And to pitch some doco ideas (GCEBE, Narva, Estonia, etc).<br/>
&gt;<br/>
&gt;I found lots of interest in the ideas... but surprisingly, not for <br/>
&gt;individual<br/>
&gt;documentaires, but a 13 part series on borders. How&#39;s that for a twist?<br/>
&gt;<br/>
&gt;So, fellow border freaks, I am looking for 13 great border stories.<br/>
&gt;I&#39;d like to come up with a balance of fun/serious stories.  I&#39;m thinking<br/>
&gt;CA-US, US-MX (The new Berlin wall), RU-ES (Narva), NE-BE (Baarle), IN-PK<br/>
&gt;(Kashmir), and so on.<br/>
&gt;<br/>
&gt;And, of course, I welcome suggestions. :)<br/>
&gt;<br/>
&gt;I heard a story as well, and wonder if any of you have heard it:  when<br/>
&gt;Israel was created, a think pencil was used to draw the shape of the<br/>
&gt;new state.  Apparently, the pencil line went through a town on what would<br/>
&gt;become the Israel-Egypt border.  However, the lead of the pencil was<br/>
&gt;thich enough that the line completely covered the dot marking the town.<br/>
&gt;  And, the location of the town has been in dispute ever since.<br/>
&gt;<br/>
&gt;Has anyone heard this story?<br/>
&gt;<br/>
&gt;Doug<br/>
&gt;<br/>
&gt;<br/>
&gt;<br/>
&gt;<br/>
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