> > As famous as the Sandwich Islands are, I have been unable to find them on the map.
> > Howard
>
> Yeah. That can be tough, Howard. Would it help if I told you where they were in relation to other well-known places, like maybe Cathay, Van Diemen's Land, the USSR, or New Amsterdam? ;-)
>
> Brunnen-"exactly how old is your atlas?"G

Globes here in the United States all seem to be similar in a peculiar way. Not similar as in "Well, duh. It's showing the same planet as all the other globes" -- but similar that every globe shows national borders as well as American state borders the same way.

The effect is they all look like there's about sixty nations on the North American continent rather than (about) ten.

-Faux "Prussia... Austria-Hungary... The Ottoman Empire... Time for a new globe." Pas