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From: jorn@MCS.COM (Jorn Barger)
Subject: Re: Map-Talk: Geography lesson
Date: 1996/05/01
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I wrote:
> [...] how little room there is left for water, among all those cities!

This little:


         ,__                                                  _,
      \~\|: ~~---___              ,                          | \
       |:::   / |  *Lyon~~~|~~~~~| *Zagreb                 _/,  >
      /~-_--*Bordeaux      | *Venice   / ~\~~/          /~| ||,'
      |       /  \   *Marseille---| *Belgrade/~)     __*Yalta_\,
     /       |    |~~~~~~~~|     :\    \   |:|:'~\  |_____,|~,-'
     |~~--__ |    |::::::::|__   :|~~~~~*Sofia__:/_-':::::{,~
     |   |  ~~~|~~|::: ::::| *Rome\::   /  `*Istanbul_____{/
     |   |     | *Barcelona-,:    :\----| ::|  |  ,'*Ankara`
     ',  \*Madrid:::|: :::::|~~~~~~~|:::*Athens'~~\  /    |
      |   \    |::::|:::::::|::     |:::::\_-~::::/`~___--\
      ',   \  ,-----|--*Tunis-------'_____/__----~~/::    /
       '_   '\|    *Algiers|~~~|:::::|::::|::::::_/-,~~*Beirut
         \*Gibraltar|      |   *Tripoli:::/~~|~~\::::\,*Jerusalem
          ~~~-'     |      |     `~~~\___|   |   *Alexandria
              '-,_  | _____|          |  /   | ,-'-*Cairo
                  `~'~  \             |  `--,~~~~-~~,  \
                         \/~\      /~~~`---`         |  \
                             \    /                   *Luxor
                              \  |                     '\'
                               `~

(Sorry about multi-posting... but I do think this sort of experiment
should be done more with ascii...)



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