"Tamuel" <bwestling.NOSPAM.DeleteThis@comhem.se> writes:
>"Jim Burgess" <burgess.DeleteThis@TheWorld.com> skrev i meddelandet
>news:egpc6n$q60$2@pcls6.std.com...
>> "Tamuel" <bwestling.NOSPAM.DeleteThis@comhem.se> writes:
>>
>>
>> >"Jan Baier" <trash.DeleteThis@fambaier.de> skrev i meddelandet
>> >news:4ovq4gFgm5h0U1@individual.net...
>> >> Tamuel schrieb:
>> >> > "Jan Baier" <trash.DeleteThis@fambaier.de> skrev i meddelandet
>> >> > news:4o3mjqFcu6hqU1@individual.net...
>> >> >> Don Del Grande schrieb:
>> >> >>> Does anybody know who won the bid to host World Dip Con in 2008?
>> >> >> Vienna (Austria) won.
>> >> >
>> >> > I think that Diplomacy-players would be very aware of where Vienna is
>> >...
>> >> > 
>> >> >
>> >>
>> >> Hey! There are US-amerikan readers present.
>> >> Remember CNN
>> >> http://lustich.de/lustich/bilderdb-bilder-4-4.html
>> >>
>> >> NOI
>> >>
>> >> 
>>
>> >At least its good fortune they did not place it in Trieste as every
>> >Diplomacy player would then go to Austria and look for it.
>>
>> Hahahah, but no, I think Diplomacy players well understand we're looking
>> at the 1900 borders of things. Look at a real map of today and look
>> at the Ukraine, for example. That country is nowhere near the borders
>> of what it was on the Dip map (especially the fact that most of
>> Galicia, esp. the part that much of my family comes from is in
>> Ukraine now) and lots of other countries and provinces are similar.
>As a resident of Sweden I can't understand why Norway (who was in union with
>Sweden and not a sovereign state) is a supply center. Finland is not a
>supply center as it was part of Russia.
How do you see the BORDER on the map of Sweden with Norway and Finland
with respect to reality? My sense is that this one is closer to "correct"
both then AND now.
>And why is the center Tunis not called Tunisia? All other neutral centres
>are called after the country, not the city.
You are not the first one to ask this. I know Allen Calhamer has been
asked that question and has answered it, but I can't recall what his
answer was. You possibly can find it with a Google search on "Tunis"
and "Allen Calhamer"... doing that reminds me that Richard Sharp was
the first to ask the question (that's probably where you found it).
And it also is noted as an issue in the Diplomacy AtoZ. I don't
see Calhamer's answer, but maybe someone else does.
>And the "lake" on the border between St Petersburgh and Russia is the
>Rybinskoje Vodochranilisce, which did not exist in 1900.
Really? Now THAT is interesting!!!
Jim-Bob
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