Subject: Re: Baarle - Border rectification
Date: Jun 30, 2005 @ 03:42
Author: aletheiak ("aletheiak" <aletheiak@...>)
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yes everyone has

even the cow that came with it too

http://ontology.buffalo.edu/smith/baarle.htm
see under
problems or opportunities

--- In BoundaryPoint@yahoogroups.com, "L. A. Nadybal" <lnadybal@c...> wrote:
> Anyone see this before?
> LN
>
> International Herald Tribune
> Thursday, November 2, 1995
>
> Belgium is a bit larger today, at the Netherlands' expense. A meadow
> smaller than a soccer field, on the edge of the Belgian enclave of
> Baarle-Duc, was handed over to Belgium this week after surveyors
> discovered a 150-year-old error. Baarle-Duc has been an enclave, just
> north of Belgium, since the Maastricht Treaty of 1843, which
> provisionally drew the border after Belgium seceded. Baarle-Duc's
> 2,000 inhabitants rub shoulders with the Dutch inhabitants of
> Baarle-Nassau; the frontier runs through stores, homes and cafés.
> House numbers have little national flags to indicate in which country
> the inhabitant lives. Belgium's takeover of the meadow was said to
> have been a friendly one.