yeah & i think the same freakin thing happened to the green zone today
they just formed a whole new government around it
--- In BoundaryPoint@yahoogroups.com, Brendan Whyte <bwhyte@u...> wrote:
> So are you saying it was a 'temporal enclave', that is, an enclave in time,
> and not just space. The surrounding lands moved chronologically forward,
> and it remained in a pre-war rut...
> Reminds me of a 'young adults' novel "the maps of time" in which a kid buys
> some old ordnance survey maps from a weird secondhand shop, and starts
> erasing bits of them, and they are erased in real life...
> Great read if you can find it.
>
> Brendan
>
> >Len is undoubtedly correct about what the sign said, but I agree with Mike
> >that
> >the word "extraterritorial" hardly fits--except perhaps in the sense that
> >it was
> >outside the territory of the FRG.
> >
> >I would classify this parcel from the American point of view as a part of the
> >former Germany (Third Reich) that continued under US military occupation
> >longer
> >than the surrounding part that was (together with the British- and
> >French-occupied zones) reconstituted into the FRG in 1949. In that
> >respect, it
> >was perhaps analogous to Okinawa and the other Ryukyu Islands, parts of Japan
> >that remained under US occupation until 1972.