CONSIDERING...It’s true.
Considering the shape they are in, most of the world’s the nations and states get along rather well together.
Italy, a sure attention getter, has always appeared to be enjoying having just given someone a good, swift kick in the rear end. Sicily, maybe? Could have been. When Italy was known as Rome, as in “Roman Empire”, and she she pretty well cleaned up on just about all the worthy nations of her time. In more modern time which some of us remember, Italy – with “Il Duce” Mussolini footing the boot’s power - tried kicking some smaller nations such as Albania, across a neighboring sea, and Hailer Selassie’ s Ethiopia-Abyssinia to the south on the African continent. They both kicked back.
Most of the world’s nations and smaller states appear to be more like blobs of real estate stuck out in the middle of nowhere but some seem to have a distinctive shape of their own.
Two of our states-unitedr hand guns of some sort. They each have historical backgrounds in which gun play was used to push some one else to agree, I'm sure. Take a closer look at that one l-l-ong county at the far western end of Oklahoma - the gun barrel portion It's called "Harris County", I think and you can't tell me that that strip of land wasn't a sore spot at one time. Look at it on the map; a long piece of geography sticking out between Kansas on the north and Texas on the south side, poking a nasty hole in the northeastern corner of New Mexico and scarfing off a passel of Colorado acres in a wide turn back to Oklahoma the solid hunk of OK land. I find it easy to imagine numerous incidents taken place in that gun barrel end of OK .
Michigan looks like a mitten. Some call it a glove; others like the term "hand". Surrounded, save on the south by Great Lakes waters. Mittens are worn when one is working and Michigan has long been a [productive state and will continue to be so. You may not have noticed that the hand is held high as if taking an oath of some sort.
My own state of Virginia as a triangle and it is true that part of it is missing. Only a triangle portion of the state remains stretched from the Atlantic Ocean to a western point which is farther west than Detroit, Michigan. Only Virginia lost land in the Civil War settlement - one-half or better of its total expanse. From Mannas as through Appomattox, Virginia was an active theater of operations. A triangle shape is fitting for designation of that which remains.
Read your outline maps. See what you can read into the shape of the world today.
A.L.M. March 8, 2005 [c498wds]
