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Geography is not about subjective feelings.

"it does not consider itself to be part of Europe"

We were presented Russian polls to the contrary during the Russian debates.

_{*Lunatic*, n.

One whose delusions are out of fashion.}

by DoDo on Sat Feb 11th, 2006 at 06:04:52 PM EST
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By the way, the most recently determined of these centres of Europe, the Lithuanian one (only from 1992), was determined by a French geographer.

_{*Lunatic*, n.

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by DoDo on Sat Feb 11th, 2006 at 06:28:24 PM EST
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But if you accept the geographic definition of Europe going to Urals, why should it have changed at anytime in the past century?

In the long run, we're all dead. John Maynard Keynes

by Jerome a Paris (etg@eurotrib.com) on Sat Feb 11th, 2006 at 06:55:54 PM EST
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Because I guarantee you the people who "calculate the center of continents" use no more sophisticated methods than drawing the contour of the continent on cardboard, cutting it out, and balancing the resulting shape on a pin. The variations come from the different projections used to draw the maps.

A society committed to the notion that government is always bad will have bad government. And it doesn't have to be that way. — Paul Krugman

by Carrie (migeru at eurotrib dot com) on Sun Feb 12th, 2006 at 06:08:20 AM EST
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Not only: some weighed the borders of Europe (i.e. the result was 'equidistant' from the extremities), there can be differences in how much shallow water is included, and Northern Russia wasn't all that well known when the earliest were determined.

Tho' the Wiki says that the Soviets' re-determination got the same result as the last Austro-Hungarian one, that village in the Western Ukraine.

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by DoDo on Sun Feb 12th, 2006 at 07:28:41 PM EST
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Here.

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by DoDo on Sat Feb 11th, 2006 at 06:33:01 PM EST
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Maybe or maybe not, but it is almost certainly about political agendas. Atleast when we are drawing boundaries. And one cannot decide the center of something without drawing boundaries.

Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities. -Voltaire

by p------- on Sat Feb 11th, 2006 at 09:51:37 PM EST
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