Subject: Re: [BoundaryPoint] Re: Baarle - Border rectification
Date: Jun 30, 2005 @ 15:25
Author: aletheia kallos (aletheia kallos <aletheiak@...>)
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> Uh, no. Not everyone has.__________________________________
>
> Please do not speak for everyone.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Doug (a small member of everyone, who has not seen
> everything)
>
>
> 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.