Subject: Re: [BoundaryPoint] Re: tp: czplsk
Date: Apr 03, 2002 @ 16:28
Author: m donner ("m donner" <maxivan82@...>)
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some beautiful stuff here
>From: "Pepijn
>
>The common point belonging to no-one, and at the same to all three
>states,
yet is no ones point really as true as everyones point
similarly is no mans land as true as everyones land
>it was impossible to demarcate it with a border marker, so that the >tripoint is only geometrically defined. It is the centre of a circle >described by the tops of an isosceles triangle, which is formed by
>three trilateral pyramidlike monoliths
this perfectly geometric arrangement seems to indicate a first known instance of an unmarked tripoint that could nevertheless with the help of snapping chalk lines & careful measurements etc actually be visited class a
certainly our happiest obelisks yet
>cylindershaped boxes were placed in an opening in the base of each >monolith, containing commemorative documents, other pieces of
>writing, newspapers of that time, and coins."
witness monuments as time capsules
another first
>I will post the translation of the entire page soon. I have to go and
>do more urgent things now.
understood & appreciated pepijn
m