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Great ideas... wow. Thanks for the workload!
The researching begins. Next step is to find some development
money so I can research and pay the bills!
 Doug Murray
sounds+images+words
Vancouver, BC
-------Original Message-------
Date: Tuesday, June 19,
2001 01:50:18 PM
Subject: Re:
[BoundaryPoint] Border tv series... cross your fingers! I look forward to hearing more about the project. I'll
just share my interest and some ideas.
Well for me my interest in borders comes from that very
thin line that means alot. I enjoyed travelling to the Danish-German
border this year. I drove along the border on the German side and
just 5 meters or so across the line I passed a German house,
German flag waving in the wind, German number plates, a Deutche Post
van entering the driveway. Shops were advertising their goods in DM.
Looking back into Denmark, signs were in Danish. There is no Iron Curtain
or any other big divider, but yet the difference is clear.
A few years ago I walked in this fancy shopping
street in Nicosia, Cyprus and suddenly a wall stopped me. I could go no
further. I was allowed to look over the wall, and what did I see:
houses abandoned for 25 years. What a change.
Well the Iron Curtain is gone, yet another seems on the
way: EU's outer Schengenland border. Example the Finnish-Russia border is
very much guarded.
Island borders:
Saint Martin. Small Caribean island but two European
languages and cultures. Märket:
A tiny island, but the border changes 8 times.
GCEBE:
Baarle: do you realy know where you are?
Jungholz: one point only
Vennbahn: The most narrow peace of territory, Chile go
home.
Crime:
Kerkrade (NL) -
Herzogenrath (DE): I've read an article about how theeves steal tv's in
the one country and runs across the street and the police can do nothing
as they ran aroad.
Tripoint: South Africa-Mozambique-Zimbabwe: aka Crooks
Corner, 'cause elephant hunters can run abroad to two other countries if
chasen by authorities.
Pene-enclaves:
Mittelberg: Austrian territory, but only accessable from
Germany. Life is liven the German way.
Point Roberts
Border straddling houses:
Kitchen in Escourt Station. The Opera House on
CAUS.
Other:
Ceuta and Melilla: Europe in Africa.
Palestine occupied by Israel, but still a heavily
guarded border.
U Sabatu was on wrong side of border after
Czechoslovakian divorce
Small Ukraine village on Russian border must smuggle
their dead people across the border at night as graveyard is in Russia.
Otherwise border guards will customs check cuffins or even ask
for customs charges (Peter Hering has a newspaper article).
Tripoints:
Austria-Slovakia-Hungary: tripoint of three language
groups as well.
Norway-Russia-Finland: tripoint of three time
zones
Just ideas
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