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From: Orchid XP v8
Subject: Re: How well do you know the world?
Date: 15 Jun 2008 13:51:27
Message: <4855569f$1@news.povray.org>
Warp wrote:
> Orchid XP v8 <voi### [at] devnull> wrote:
>> This appears to be some kind of cylindrical projection
> 
>   More precisely, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mercator_projection

Ah. I thought it was Miller...

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From: Bill Pragnell
Subject: Re: How well do you know the world?
Date: 16 Jun 2008 08:20:18
Message: <48565a82$1@news.povray.org>
Gail Shaw wrote:
> A quiz game that tests your knowledge of cities and places across the world.
> 
> http://minijuegos.com/juegos/html/index.php?id=5974
> 
> I got to level 8 out of 10, but only got 26000 points in that level. You
> need 30000 to go to the next level.

Very good fun! 1st attempt, level 10, 355,000 points etc etc. I'm going 
to play some more!


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From: Orchid XP v8
Subject: Re: How well do you know the world?
Date: 16 Jun 2008 15:14:25
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Bill Pragnell wrote:

> Very good fun! 1st attempt, level 10, 355,000 points etc etc. I'm going 
> to play some more!

Yeah, yeah, alright. So what if I gave up after finally reaching level 
2? Maybe I got bored. :-P

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From: Bill Pragnell
Subject: Re: How well do you know the world?
Date: 17 Jun 2008 07:24:39
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Orchid XP v8 wrote:
> Bill Pragnell wrote:
> 
>> Very good fun! 1st attempt, level 10, 355,000 points etc etc. I'm 
>> going to play some more!
> 
> Yeah, yeah, alright. So what if I gave up after finally reaching level 
> 2? Maybe I got bored. :-P

Embarrassingly, I did progressively worse on my two subsequent attempts. 
And some of the same answers came up, too :-(


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