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On Thu, Jan 31, 2008 at 9:30 AM, Hank Nussbacher <>
wrote:
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> I think more interesting is the landing stations where numerous cables
> intersect. They may be diverse in the water, but they cluster around each
> other when they hit the landing stations.
Exactly; which have historically been in the same strategic locations. Suez,
Singapore, Cape Town; it's the strategic map of the British Empire. "Five
strategic keys lock up the world", as Lord Fisher said. (Dover, Gibraltar,
Singapore, Cape Town, and Suez).
The similarity is truly uncanny.
