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Date: Mon, 15 Dec 2003 01:15:48 +0100
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> As in, the Meter (sorry, I'm American) was defined as some fraction of
> the distance from Dunkirk to Barcelona?

yes, a fraction.  gravitational anomalies, imprisonment, revolution  --  the
whole 9 yards.  great book.

i have it in a box somewhere (with the ambiguity).