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From: abc@brl-tgr.ARPA (Brint Cooper )
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Subject: Re: Coke and the Real Thing
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Date: Fri, 12-Jul-85 17:12:15 EDT
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In article <2020@ut-ngp.UTEXAS> mercury@ut-ngp.UTEXAS (Larry E. Baker) writes:

>I think that the inhabitants of {Dresden, Berlin, London,
>Munich, etc.} would disagree.  When you say "Western Hemisphere,"
>I assume you include the entirity of "Western Civilization," which
>includes most of Europe.

>I think "in the history of the Western Hemisphere" is taking things a
>bit far.  Try "In the history of the American Hemisphere" and I might
>not disagree, mainly because it is the ONLY bombardment that has
>happened in the American hemisphere.  With the possible exclusion of
>some Civil War episodes.  But that's because they didn't have
>Howitzers then.

Sorry, but Dresden, Berlin, and Munich are in the Eastern Hemisphere.
The Prime Meridian runs thru Greenwich, England, just down the Thames
from London.