Subject: bb2 barbados dream country<br/>
Date: Sep 27, 2003 @ 22:22<br/>
Author: m donner (&quot;m donner&quot; &lt;maxivan82@...&gt;)<br/>
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<div id="ygrps-yiv-111889663">the 11 traditional parishes of barbados have been officially declared <br/>
irrelevant in recent years<br/>
tho the cia continues to consider them real<br/>
as well as subject at any time to be joined by the capital bridgetown to <br/>
round out a full dozen<br/>
so this map dating possibly from 1980 is today either a dream or correct or <br/>
incomplete<br/>
<a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://www.lib.utexas.edu/maps/americas/barbados.gif">http://www.lib.utexas.edu/maps/americas/barbados.gif</a><br/>
& if correct then it is fully decorated by at least the following 10 <br/>
triparish points<br/>
anjape<br/>
anjath<br/>
anjpth<br/>
bb2ccgemi the very triarea btw where any newborn points would emerge<br/>
ccgeph<br/>
gemith<br/>
gejnph<br/>
gejojp<br/>
gejpth<br/>
jamith<br/>
<br/>
yet if still real it is nevertheless dreamlike again for the rare & elegant <br/>
simplicity of its interparish borders comprised entirely of geodesic <br/>
straight lines<br/>
<br/>
except possibly if the addition of the twelfth parish should admit a first <br/>
exception to so remarkable a regime<br/>
<br/>
for we dont know in what shape the 12th parish might arrive<br/>
<br/>
nevertheless i hope you agree it is a feast for the eyes as long as it lasts <br/>
if it does<br/>
<br/>
<br/>
but anyway<br/>
let me just insert here<br/>
since i find i am already barging thru the letter b<br/>
in case anyone was curious to learn which letters of the alphabet begin the <br/>
fewest & most of the 193 iso country digraphs<br/>
that<br/>
only the letter x is void of countries beginning with it<br/>
which seems a fitting tribute to it anyway<br/>
& also that there are at the other extreme 17 countries beginning with each <br/>
of the letters b & m & s<br/>
so i would say<br/>
& again fittingly<br/>
at least to ourselves<br/>
the letters of the alphabet themselves also enjoy triple world class gold <br/>
medalists at the moment<br/>
<br/>
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