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F.Y.I. all, Shona has been enslaved...Is there something you need to tell us, oh faithless jezo-bel? 
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> We actually publish maps which/that show the world the right way up. With apologies to General Cornwallis! I had one of those maps for years -- If I remember arightly it was the McCregor's Universal Corrective Map of the World. A nice Mercator projection with the South Pole at the top where it belongs, with Oz and NZ equidistant from the vertical center of the map. Mine was probably a meter plus wide and a meter high. It disappeared during an office move some years back.   I bought it in Sydney Airport on my way out of the country back in 1986 and it (along with my Akubra hat) was one of my souvenirs of a wonderful trip. The Akubra finally fell apart after almost 15 years of service. The only thing I had done to it to alter it was to replace the hatband with the skin of a rattler I ran over while cycling west of Denver.
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I once bought a map of the world in Korea which showed China in the middle. Given the meaning of the Chinese name for China, that makes sense.
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Given the meaning of the Chinese name for China, that makes sense.Oh, you're no doubt referring to the muddle dictatorship? 
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Father Steve freely states: I once bought a map of the world in Korea which showed China in the middle. Given the meaning of the Chinese name for China, that makes sense.
Black Elk, the Lakota holy man, mentioned in his book Black Elk Speaks that a certain place was the center of the World. He expanded on his comment by noting that every place was the center of the World but some places were better at it than others.
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Shanks, you go to the strangest parties!
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