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To: Jon Koplik who wrote (20779)	1/4/1999 3:14:00 PM
From: kech	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 152472

Jon- Great point i.e. small size of Europe explaining mail delivery and tower coverage. Maybe this explains how Mussolini got the trains to run "on time" as well. Tom

To: Jon Koplik who wrote (20779)	1/8/1999 5:42:00 PM
From: John Cuthbertson	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 152472

Jon, re: "Europe is much smaller in land size than the U.S. ....I read that Germany is only the size of New Jersey" The Western European countries are smaller, but not THAT small! New Jersey is only about 8,000 square miles in area, Germany is about 138,000 square miles, just a little smaller than California (159,000). France is 213,000 sq. mi. (or 553,000 sq. km if you prefer!), almost as big as Texas (267,000). I think if you compared the whole of Europe outside Russia to the continental U.S. they would be pretty comparable in size. Sorry to reply late, obviously I'm a few hundred posts behind on the thread. Another fun fact about New Jersey (where I lived for six years in grad school) is that its population density is almost twice that of India! ==John