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Re: Getting wet for fun (and other stuff!)
Andrea, on host 192.127.94.7
Tuesday, December 12, 2000, at 06:41:13
Re: Getting wet for fun (and other stuff!) posted by Beasty on Tuesday, December 12, 2000, at 04:06:31:
> Do you mean the right hand side?
Of course, the right side! :)
> Because historically the left is the correct side. Blame Napoleon Bonaparte for changing it.
Well, I blame him for a lot of things other than that (for example, all the art masterpieces he stole and are now into French museums)!
Do you know that, up to the 20s, all streetcar services in Italy ran on the left hand side (while motorcars, bikes and horse-driven carts had to run on the right hand side), following the railways use (actually, all European railways run on the left hand side)? In Milan, streetcars were switched to run on the right hand side in 1926 (not a big problem, because the streetcars were all double-ended) because of the increasing motorcar traffic.
AP.
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