Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site brl-tgr.ARPA Path: utzoo!linus!philabs!cmcl2!seismo!brl-tgr!abc From: abc@brl-tgr.ARPA (Brint Cooper ) Newsgroups: net.politics Subject: Re: Coke and the Real Thing Message-ID: <11538@brl-tgr.ARPA> Date: Fri, 12-Jul-85 17:12:15 EDT Article-I.D.: brl-tgr.11538 Posted: Fri Jul 12 17:12:15 1985 Date-Received: Tue, 16-Jul-85 01:56:53 EDT References: <814@ihlpg.UUCP> <2020@ut-ngp.UTEXAS> Reply-To: abc@brl-tgr.ARPA (Brint Cooper (CTAB)) Distribution: net Organization: Ballistic Research Lab Lines: 17 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.