part 353 whalers on the moon

[aphanon_meme]

We've been here over a year now! I can hardly believe it! Dreamwidth's been pretty good, I'd say, with almost no downtime to speak of and all that! Anyway... how is your spring going? Or I guess it's almost summer, isn't it? Hopefully it's been well! I've been catching up on work and new movies, all very exciting stuff, I'm sure.

Enjoy part 353!

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Re: /diff

[quandtuniverse]

Brazil and the United States have in common that both their Capitals were planned cities. In Brazil's case, it moved from Salvador to Rio de Janeiro, and then to Brasília because they wanted the capital to be at the center of the country.

As a kid, this did lead me to believe that every country had their capital in the center, and then was very confused to discover D.C. was located close to the east coast, and that many countries have their capitals near water if possible. Of course that makes perfect sense to me now...

Re: /diff

[(Anonymous)]

Well to be honest at the time of D.C.'s conception, the United States consisted of just the east coast and was considered the "middle" between the southern states and the northern ones.

So I guess that would have counted as the center of the country?

(Urban planning in America is weird, mainly because it's mostly "build as you go, fix the mistakes later")

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[quandtuniverse]

That is true! I had forgotten about that. Although to be fair, I only learned about the American expansion when I was 14 or so. And I moved to D.C. when I was 12, so things were a little weird/confusing for a while.