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[cionaudha.livejournal.com]

And three of the corners are in the US!

[morienos.livejournal.com]

Churlish as it is to point out, there are seven corners there. Things like that niggle at me.

[cionaudha.livejournal.com]

I meant that three of the four they're showing are in the US. And then there's China.

[morienos.livejournal.com]

Well that wasn't a comment on your comment, it was a comment on some ad exec failing to notice their map was a cube.

[3cthelion.livejournal.com]

technically true, but alaska and hawaii were only territories in 1952, so they would probably be nearly as foreign as china to most americans (except, perhaps for ww2 veterans of the pacific theater).

just playing devil's advocate (not the pinball game). ;-)

[albear.livejournal.com]

That's one weird looking airplane, never seen that one before.

[skonen-blades.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I was just thinking that. It looks like a WWII bomber painted with airline colours.

[tomatoe333.livejournal.com]

The Stratocruiser was a development of the B-29 bomber. Same wings, tail, and engine, basically. The cabin was pressurized, so they had to redesign the nose.

Somewhat abridged, but the full history is at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stratocruiser

[67threnody.livejournal.com]

That airplane looks scary.