Subject: Spanish possessions in Morocco and others<br/>
Date: Oct 23, 2001 @ 19:55<br/>
Author: Arif Samad (Arif Samad &lt;fHoiberg@...&gt;)<br/>
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<div id="ygrps-yiv-1694822361">First, a few requests.<br/>
(1)  I was looking at the site on America&#39;s and<br/>
world&#39;s lowest points (Yay, Jack!).  There are quite a<br/>
few countries with area below sea level.  It is quite<br/>
instructive, I have to say.  But I was wondering if<br/>
there was any page that identifies how big each of the<br/>
depressions below sea level are or if there is any<br/>
book that does the same.<br/>
(2)  US post office has issued Eid Stamps. <br/>
Unfortunately, they also issued the condition that one<br/>
million of them have to be sold for them to continue<br/>
issuing it (Can you think what would happen if they<br/>
set same limits on Hanukkah, Christmas or Kwanzaa<br/>
stamps).  So, if any of you live in US and buy stamps<br/>
in post office, please buy those stamps.  Hey, it is a<br/>
big thing for muslims to be recognized as true<br/>
Americans.  <br/>
<br/>
I have looked at the map of Mar and Tierra on the<br/>
website by Mr Schippke.  However, the islands he<br/>
identifies as Mar and Tierra has a different name in<br/>
Moroccan maps.  As it is a Moroccan map, they might<br/>
have changed the names of the islands.  A Spanish<br/>
encyclopedia also identifies the two islands being<br/>
towards the east and about 1/10th the size of<br/>
Alhucemas, but that maybe my mistaken translation from<br/>
the Spanish.  Thus I can&#39;t deny nor confirm whether<br/>
the islands identified as Mar and Tierra is correctly<br/>
done so.  Unfortunately, I have misplaced the<br/>
photocopies of the Moroccan map and copy from the<br/>
encyclopedia.<br/>
I also misplaced my photocopy of a map from Cambridge<br/>
History Atlas where they showed Hamburg as an outlet<br/>
for Czechoslovakia.  Obviously, I didn&#39;t think it was<br/>
still Czech, or I would have mentioned it as one of my<br/>
virtual enclaves.  The atlas did not mention whether<br/>
the sovereignty was Czech or not.  Actually, if I<br/>
remember it correctly, there were two ports, one each<br/>
on Elbe and Neisse.  Hamburg and Stettin (Cziescyn)<br/>
were the ones, I believe.  By the way, there was also<br/>
areas of Bulgaria in Greece and Yoguslavia in Italy<br/>
(less than a mile away from their border in Rijeka).<br/>
Arif<br/>
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