--- In BoundaryPoint@yahoogroups.com, "Lowell G. McManus"
<mcmanus71496@m...> wrote:

> While the NGS has often furnished its maps of Europe and Asia with

a green line

> separating the two, I have never seen them do the same for the two

Americas or

> for Asia and Africa.
>
> I would suggest that the COPA political boundary is an

unacceptable limit

> between the Americas for at least the following reasons:
>
> 1. Were there not two Americas prior to the 1903 independence of

Panamá from

> Colombia?
>
> 2. Nowhere does the NGS's Europe-Asia boundary follow a political

boundary.

>
> I would, rather, suggest the narrowest part of the isthmus. That

would be even

> with the Golfo de San Blas.
>
> However, an excellent argument can be made that the continental

limit should be

> across the lowest part of the cordillera that runs the length of

the isthmus.

> That is, indeed, where the Americas would become two separate land

masses if sea

> level were to rise sufficiently. (This thinking is influenced by

the actual

> experience at the Bering Strait between Asia and North America at

the end of the

> most recent ice age, and perhaps at the Strait of Gibraltar, the

Dardanelles,

> and the Bosporus at various times in prehistory.) This lowest

part of Panamá is

> the approximate location of the canal.
>
> Between Asia and Africa, both the narrowest and lowest parts of

the Isthmus of

> Suez are the approximate location of the canal there.
>
> So, we can add Panamá and Egypt to Russia, Kazakhstan, Azerbaijan,

Georgia, and

> Turkey in the list of countries with continuous intercontinental

sovereignty.

>
> Lowell G. McManus
> Leesville, Louisiana, USA
>
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Michael Kaufman" <mikekaufman79@y...>
> To: <BoundaryPoint@yahoogroups.com>
> Sent: Sunday, November 14, 2004 4:45 PM
> Subject: Re: [BoundaryPoint] The easternmost point in Europe
>
>
> >
> > What does Nat. grog. society say about N/S Americas.
> > Again you could say same thing that it is all one.
> > But I am thinking they have determined it on basis of
> > political boundary (Panama - Colombia). Is that how
> > the did it?
> >
> > --- "Lowell G. McManus" <mcmanus71496@m...> wrote:
> >
> > > Yes, exactly. That would be the easternmost point
> > > on what the National Geographic Society shows on its
> > > maps as the traditional line of distinction between
> > > Europe and Asia.
> > >
> > > Of course, this is a distinction only in the minds
> > > of men--much less significant than a political
> > > boundary or an interface between distinct cultures,
> > > religions, languages, etc. Still, if such terms as
> > > "Europe" and "Asia" have geographic meaning, there
> > > must be some limit between their respective regions
> > > of applicability. This remains true, even if they
> > > are part of one land mass with one another and with
> > > Africa.
> > >
> > > Lowell G. McManus
> > > Leesville, Louisiana, USA
> > > ----- Original Message -----
> > > From: John Seeliger
> > > To: BoundaryPoint@yahoogroups.com
> > > Sent: Sunday, November 14, 2004 12:09 PM
> > > Subject: Re: [BoundaryPoint] The easternmost point
> > > in Europe
> > >
> > >
> > > ----- Original Message -----
> > > From: Lowell G. McManus
> > > To: BoundaryPoint@yahoogroups.com
> > > Sent: Friday, November 12, 2004 9:54 PM
> > > Subject: Re: [BoundaryPoint] The easternmost
> > > point in Europe
> > >
> > >
> > > I must disagree as to the location of the
> > > eastern point of Europe. If the Ural Mountains make
> > > up part of the delimitation, the eastern point of
> > > Europe would be at a point on the drainage divide
> > > east of the head of the Malaya Usa River. This is
> > > in the far north of Russia, roughly between the
> > > towns of Khal'mer Yu (west of the divide) and
> > > Laborovaya (east of the divide). Search for
> > > "Khal'mer Yu" on Expedia.
> > >
> > > Lowell G. McManus
> > > Leesville, Louisiana, USA
> > >
> > >
> > > Is this what you had in mind:

who me

just more repetitious pouring from the empty into the void
so far as i can see

& that whole punctoscopy comprehending the easternmost point of
anything that has ever passed for europe in anyones mind is true
except for a few confounding overseas possessions

but the whole europe idea is actually only an artifice of ethnic
apartheit anyway

in everyonese & barbarian too
we still call this whole continent afroeurasia
& see it as only 1 continent

& not least because that is what she really wrote

so you dont have to imagine anything

you just look at & see what is actually er continent or er holding
together there

& ditto btw for 1 america no problem

also
my search for additional fatuous ideas that may also be ripe for
86ing has forged 2 full months ahead into 1919
& therefore 2005
specifically to january 16
where i have encountered
much to my glee & indeed celebration
the legal ratification of prohibition
i kid you not

& because this isnt just any prohibition but the original & most
famous one of all
the opportunity is again enormous
& even clearly extends to include the entire legal right of the
political majority to tyrannize the minority everywhere

& indeed make that
the more enfranchised to victimize the less etc

as if they really could

hahahahaha

yikes this is awesome

sounds like a lower keys kind of thing

& there are 2 full months to get ready for it

while megapointing on over there of course

& great to hear from peter hering too

peter do you read me about postponing the truck plan

please see recent special message to yourself

& with apologies for this compression of messages for my own
convenience while on the run as usual