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Re: Sun-Centered? (was: The Flat Earth?)

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From: Tom Swanson
Date: Fri, 19 May 1995 00:00
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In article <sarimaD8rGnM.9L4@netcom.com> sarima@netcom.com (Stanley Friesen) writes:
>In article <3p6kb9$k3j@manuel.anu.edu.au>,
>Andrew Christy <christy@rschp2.anu.edu.au> wrote:
>> Doesn't work either here (Canberra, Australia) or in Cambrige, UK. In both
>>cities, streets that are intuitively parallel turn out not to be
>>(as a rule in Canberra, they are 45-60 degrees out). In Cambridge, two of
>>them even meet at a right angle (by the Round Church).
>>
>That's nothing.  A few mile south of here, in Irvine California,
>there is a pair of streets that intersect each other *twice*.

I'll see that and raise you one.  The family housing for the Navy base in 
Orlando, FL has one street (Joyce Dr.) that intersects another street *three*
times.  So much for the directions that say one lives at the corner of
Joyce and (whatever the other street name was).  


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From: swansont@comphy.physics.orst.edu (Tom Swanson)
Subject: Re: Sun-Centered? (was: The Flat Earth?)
Date: 1995/05/19
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