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To: CholeraJoe

Paris was rebuilt with exceptionally wide streets so barricades would be impossible. In theory.


31 posted on 07/09/2007 2:28:11 PM PDT by RightWhale (It's Brecht's donkey, not mine)
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To: RightWhale

And trees, so conquering armies could march in the shade.


34 posted on 07/09/2007 2:30:03 PM PDT by CholeraJoe ("Who are you and what have you done with Hermione Granger?")
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To: RightWhale

Paris was rebuilt with exceptionally wide streets so barricades would be impossible. In theory.


Yes - aka “Fields of Fire” aka “Give ‘em a whiff of the grape”.

I read an article not too long ago where Ahmanutjob had asked for the avenues of Tehran to be widened so that when the 12th Imam returns he’ll have plenty of room to roam around. (I’m not making that part up - I swear). Seemed to me that there may have been a much more practical reason that was really at work.


54 posted on 07/09/2007 2:55:44 PM PDT by 2 Kool 2 Be 4-Gotten
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