5 messages.-------------------------------Johnnie ------------------------------------------------------------------------ >Date: Fri, 17 Nov 95 07:20 PST >Subject: Re: What is the strangest question My most astonishing reference question: Please give me a map showing rainfall and climatic conditions in 13th century Iraq! Another favorite: Where is the Comer(sic) and why do the Gypsies go there? Lastly: I'm not joking, Lady, but have you ever heard of a place called Bessarabia?I LOVE REFERENCE. Portia, UCLA ------------------------------------------------------------ >Date: Fri, 17 Nov 95 10:30:16 EST >From: "Howard Stone, Map Cataloger, Brown Univ. Library" <[log in to unmask]> >Subject: Re: What is the strangest question re: Strange questions A few years ago, at a rodeo in Calgary, I got into a conversation with a young woman sitting next to me. She asked me where I was from, I answered "Rhode Island", and she asked me "What state is that in?" A couple of days later, in Banff National Park, I was asked if Rhode Island was part of New York. ---------------------------------------------------------- >Date: Fri, 17 Nov 95 08:55:23 CST >From: "Gerry STREY" <[log in to unmask]> >Subject: What is the strangest questions. . . Speaking of sad but scary, there was the man who wanted the maps and land records of King Solomon's expedition to Canada. . .he was a direct descedant and wanted to claim his inheiritance. Gerry Strey State Historical Society of Wisconsin ---------------------------------------------------------------------- >Date: Fri, 17 Nov 1995 17:51:51 -0500 (EST) >From: World Space Corporation <[log in to unmask]> >Subject: Re: What is the strangest question RE globe requests of cities and states: Not that strange - since some companies market items such as a Globe of Berlin (5' diameter) for whatever reason... can be bought in souvenir shops in Berlin. Ingo Gunther ------------------------------------------------------------------- >Date: Mon, 20 Nov 1995 09:20:58 +0100 >From: [log in to unmask] >Subject: What is the strangest question (A) Darius Bartlett and Michael J. Horner would be surprised to know that we have in our collection a GLOBE of Berlin. Its description is: Berlin / cartography: Karl-F. Harig. -- [Copenhagen] : Scan-Globe, cop. 1993. -- 1 globe : in color ; diameter ca. 15 cm. I forgot why Scan-Globe created this globe as promo-article. Maybe it had something to do with the 16th ICA conference in 1993 in Germany. Since we gather curiosa as hobby (little costing items ranging from sugar-bags through children's tea-sets and whiskey-bottles in the shape of Africa to garments [as member of the organizing committee of the 13th Imago Mundi conference in 1989 I received from our American colleagues a blue T-shirt with a 17th century hemisphere and the text "Go Blaeu"]) I'm not so easily dumbfounded by moronic questions. Lots of fun! Jan Smits Map Curator Royal Library, National Library of The Netherlands [log in to unmask]