Minor note: Brits refer to a North American "megalopolis" as a "conurbation".
I wonder what the reaction would be to having "Conurbations of North America" as a title. :-)
I liked the prediction of a history book in Mandarin Chinese titled "The Folly & Inevitable Decline of the Foreign Barbarians". About the only improvement to that would be to replace the last word with "devils". :-)
The existence of such a work presumes that the current hegemons of Mainland China are able to keep on track, which IMHO is not guaranteed. [I would seriously be happy to see them go the way of the Mongol "Yuan" dynasty, which lasted a mere 80 years. :-)]
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I wonder what the reaction would be to having "Conurbations of North America" as a title. :-)
I liked the prediction of a history book in Mandarin Chinese titled "The Folly & Inevitable Decline of the Foreign Barbarians". About the only improvement to that would be to replace the last word with "devils". :-)
The existence of such a work presumes that the current hegemons of Mainland China are able to keep on track, which IMHO is not guaranteed. [I would seriously be happy to see them go the way of the Mongol "Yuan" dynasty, which lasted a mere 80 years. :-)]