Subject: Re: competing &quot;Factbooks&quot;<br/>
Date: Jun 10, 2004 @ 22:06<br/>
Author: geoh88 (&quot;geoh88&quot; &lt;geoh88@...&gt;)<br/>
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<div id="ygrps-yiv-1458698982">--- In <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="mailto:BoundaryPoint@yahoogroups.com">BoundaryPoint@yahoogroups.com</a>, &quot;acroorca2002&quot; &lt;orc@o...&gt; <br/>
wrote:<br/>
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<blockquote><span title="ireply"> &gt; nor do i think the iso lists are equivalent to the cia factbook in <br/>
 </span></blockquote>any <br/>
<blockquote><span title="ireply"> &gt; real way <br/>
&gt; except perhaps in the completeness of their scope<br/>
 <br/>
 </span></blockquote>If you take the table of contents of the Factbook, and eliminate the <br/>
few listings for the oceans and the world, you&#39;re left with an <br/>
alphabetical (except for Taiwan) list of their version of what does <br/>
and does not deserve a separate listing as a first order <br/>
geopolitical unit of the world, each of which gets a map, and <br/>
standard package of data, including BOUNDARIES.<br/>
<br/>
<blockquote><span title="ireply"> &gt; & asking if anyone can make butter out of air<br/>
&gt; you may or may not be surprised & delighted by what you get<br/>
<br/>
 </span></blockquote>Mmmmmmmmmm, butter!  Now you made me hungry.</div>