From owner-freebsd-chat Wed May 22 0:57:49 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from wantadilla.lemis.com (wantadilla.lemis.com [192.109.197.80]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 126A337B410 for ; Wed, 22 May 2002 00:57:42 -0700 (PDT) Received: by wantadilla.lemis.com (Postfix, from userid 1004) id 17F9E8164B; Wed, 22 May 2002 17:27:36 +0930 (CST) Date: Wed, 22 May 2002 17:27:36 +0930 From: Greg 'groggy' Lehey To: Terry Lambert Cc: Brad Knowles , Annelise Anderson , Jamie Bowden , Rahul Siddharthan , Alexey Dokuchaev , chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Country names (was: cvs commit: src/sys/alpha/alpha clock.c) Message-ID: <20020522172736.G45715@wantadilla.lemis.com> References: <3CEAE187.FC1CC966@mindspring.com> <20020522114303.D26107@wantadilla.lemis.com> <3CEB391E.C9C46A50@mindspring.com> <20020522155814.E45715@wantadilla.lemis.com> <3CEB3B8C.9FD6AD0E@mindspring.com> <20020522162144.F45715@wantadilla.lemis.com> <3CEB4C8A.150E16F@mindspring.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <3CEB4C8A.150E16F@mindspring.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.23i Organization: The FreeBSD Project Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-418-838-708 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.FreeBSD.org/ X-PGP-Fingerprint: 9A1B 8202 BCCE B846 F92F 09AC 22E6 F290 507A 4223 Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Wednesday, 22 May 2002 at 0:45:14 -0700, Terry Lambert wrote: > Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: >>> Continental North America. Geopolitically, they are split >>> between North and Central America. >> >> Where does that definition come from? > > The world atlas; here's an online reference: > > http://www.infoplease.com/atlas/centralamerica.html Central America? That's a continent? >> I thought North America went down as far as Panama. > > So did the rest of us, until the US gave the canal back, and > then took Manual Noriega back, too. This doesn't seem to have anything to do with geography. I googled and followed the first link: http://directory.google.com/Top/Regional/North_America/Mexico/. Interesting stuff in there, but I think the URL says it all. And yes, there's a http://directory.google.com/Top/Regional/Central_America/ as well. Greg -- See complete headers for address and phone numbers To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message