I was in Gibraltar and Spain last week and took quite a few pictures of the border. Attached are three of them. 1) The east end of the border from the...
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Brendan Whyte
obiwonfive
Sep 18, 2012 8:04 am
The latest edition of the digital /Atlas of Historical County Boundaries/ is available on the Newberry Library’s website at:...
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RayM
dcnomaguy
Sep 12, 2012 2:14 am
I will not, under any circumstances, join Facebook. All one divulges about oneself goes into into multiple government and commercial databases that are never...
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lnadybal@...
lnadybal
Sep 7, 2012 7:55 pm
Ifni was a rectangularly shaped colony - not really a detachment of anything. Walvia and the offshore islands were cede not TO RSA but by RSA to Namibia. ...
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ray
saintsray
Sep 7, 2012 2:25 pm
It is an error. Walvis Bay and the Penguin Islands were ceded back to RSA in 1994. One could add the Portuguese and French Indian exclaves, perhaps? Maybe Sidi...
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David Kendall
dhkendall@...
Sep 6, 2012 6:38 pm
For Walvis Bay, is 1964 a typo for 1994? (Or was what's now Namibia considered integral South African territory starting in 1964?)...
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beeblebrox3003
Sep 6, 2012 5:56 pm
... Videos of the former Bottcherberg Exclaves in Berlin: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=flH3CwdCZz0 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=81yr0oN5BEw Exclave Wüste...
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Len Nadybal
lnadybal
Sep 6, 2012 3:49 am
I agree - and feel the same way about Facebook. If you don't want to join Yahoo, then consider the free download of Google's Picasa, and then post your own...
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Goyta' F. Villela...
goytabr
Sep 6, 2012 2:01 am
... That requires a Facebook account to view, Arif. I am not on Facebook (and do not intend to join), and other group members may not be there either. This...
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Arif Samad
arifussamad
Sep 6, 2012 1:25 am
I just finished a beach vacation to the island of St Martin in the Caribbean but obviously I did get to go to the border between the Dutch part and the French...
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Lowell G. McManus
lowellgmcmanus
Aug 25, 2012 9:09 pm
I would expect something on-line from Turkey, since that nation has arguably the most internet-obsessed population in the world. Lowell G. McManus Eagle Pass,...
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P von Werden
vonwerden
Aug 25, 2012 7:41 pm
Unfortunately my search for information in Arabic about the changes to the treaty was unsuccessful as well. The fact that the mausoleum was moved from its...
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Goyta' F. Villela...
goytabr
Aug 25, 2012 7:30 pm
... It wasn't clear to me that the "passport control" wasn't just a simple security identification procedure before entering a sensitive place (for being...
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Lowell G. McManus
lowellgmcmanus
Aug 25, 2012 6:31 pm
Could be. I was aware of the recent Turkish talk about NATO. What I wonder most is this: When faced with the necessity of moving the tomb for the reservoir...
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Dieter L
dlmm
Aug 25, 2012 3:00 pm
Turkey has a different point of view: there is a passport control when you want to enter the compound, and the Turkish PM recently let it be known that any...
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Lowell G. McManus
lowellgmcmanus
Aug 25, 2012 1:56 am
Len, I tend to agree. Unless proved otherwise by the purported reaffirmation of the agreement subsequent to Syrian independence from France or whatever the ...
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Len Nadybal
lnadybal
Aug 25, 2012 12:32 am
Thanks, Lowell, I don't know what to make of that now - le drapeau Americain flies on US bases in other countries without creating exclaves and and the...
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Lowell G. McManus
lowellgmcmanus
Aug 24, 2012 6:06 pm
An agency of the United States Government, The American Battle Monuments Commission, owns and maintains 24 cemeteries on foreign soil, containing some 131,000...
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Clay Risen
clay.risen
Aug 24, 2012 5:32 pm
Is that the same disposition as the Normandy American cemetery? ... -- www.clayrisen.com www.twitter.com/risenc Is that the same disposition as the Normandy...
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Dallen Timothy
dtimoth
Aug 24, 2012 5:21 pm
So it could be the 'property' of Turkey, meaning the real estate belongs to Turkey, but not necessarily Turkish sovereign territory. Right? There have been...
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Lowell G. McManus
lowellgmcmanus
Aug 24, 2012 5:10 pm
I have searched the UN treaty database in vain for a treaty or agreement about the 1973 move. The French text of the 1921 "Franco-Turkish Agreement signed at...
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Len Nadybal
lnadybal
Aug 24, 2012 12:05 pm
Through what treaty or amendment was it moved? What date? Do you know? Tnx...
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Dieter Langenecker
dlmm
Aug 24, 2012 11:51 am
No, they moved both the enclave as well as the tomb besides en.wikipedia.org/**wiki/Tomb_of_Suleyman_Shah<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tomb_of_Suleyman_Shah> ...
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Len Nadybal
lnadybal
Aug 24, 2012 11:31 am
Does that mean that the territory from the treaty is now under water, and that the tomb lies in Syria on dry land outside of the enclave? LN...
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Dieter Langenecker
dlmm
Aug 24, 2012 10:27 am
See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tomb_of_Suleyman_Shah...
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Dallen Timothy
dtimoth
Aug 23, 2012 8:30 pm
Arif, the border on St Marten is very accessible and easy to visit. You can see my website for lots of pictures from there...
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Arif Samad
arifussamad
Aug 23, 2012 8:15 pm
Guys,         I will be going to St martin/Sint Maarten for a beach vacation with the wife on Labor Day weekend in about a week. I am guessing (at...
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Eef Berns
eefberns
Aug 17, 2012 2:41 pm
Hello, I'm pleased to announce a new update of my website on the bordermarkers of the Pyrenees: www.grpdesbf.nl Every bordermarker, known to be still existing...
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Dallen Timothy
dtimoth
Aug 17, 2012 3:56 am
Hi Folks I just wanted to share the fun news that I just bought an 1862 two dollar bill/note from the People's Bank of Vermont, issued at Derby Line. I hope...
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Lowell G. McManus
lowellgmcmanus
Aug 15, 2012 5:48 am
Read the article at http://goo.gl/r0Vn8 . Lowell G. McManus Eagle Pass, Texas, USA...
