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Subject:        Meetings With Remarkable Map Users, Episode #641
Date:   Tue, 27 Jan 2009 10:20:15 -0800
From:   Brian Bach <[log in to unmask]>
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Not long ago, I happened to be in Kaunas, Lithuania, at the Centrinis
Knygynas book shop, perusing the excellent map selection there. I
encountered a fellow American, probably in his 30s, who was examining a
map of the Baltic region that basically covered from Copenhagen to
Tallinn, Tampere to Warsaw.  In conversation with me, he happened to
point out the Kaliningrad (ex-Kőnigsberg) enclave, in this case, simply
labeled 'Russia'.
"I knew the Soviet Union was broken up," he said in all seriousness,
"but I didn't know that Russia got reduced THAT far!"

Brian P. Bach
Documents/Maps
Brooks Library
Central Washington University
400 E. University Way
Ellensburg, WA 98926-7548
USA
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