Subject: Re: [BoundaryPoint] Re: Baarle - Border rectification
Date: Jun 30, 2005 @ 05:49
Author: Doug Murray (Doug Murray <doug@...>)
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On Jun 29, 2005, at 8:42 PM, aletheiak wrote:
> 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.
>
>
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