19 Jan
1999
19 Jan
'99
12:29 a.m.
At 08:42 PM 1/18/99 -0800, don wrote:
Well, except perhaps for the concrete replica in the Columbia River Valley.
Geez, are you that lost Don?
Joe
On Mon, 18 Jan 1999, Joe wrote:
> At 03:58 PM 1/18/99 -0700, you wrote:
> >A recent program on Stonehenge on the Discovery channel said the RAF
> wanted to
> >level Stonehenge with explosives, but the person who owned the land
they
were
> >on refused to let them. *boggle* Is it just
me, or does all this suggest
> >that in the 1930s and early 40s good maps were much harder to come by
than
today? I know the advent of satelite mapping has
improved it, but you'd
think
anyone planning to invade England would have gone
there in 1938 and just
BOUGHT maps.
The problem wasn't the maps, it was the fact that if you were in a plane
and caught above the cloads and then came down you had NO idea where you
where since the winds could have pushed you in ANY direction away from your
predicted location. One bridge, railroad, road, church steeple looks
pretty much like another but Stonehenge is an ABSOULUTELY unique landmark!
Joe