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(...) :) How do you define clockwise? Does that mean going up, the pillar will be on your right, and the outer wall on your left? If so, I can definately remember some of them - its the ones where the central pillar is on the left as you walk up (...) (25 years ago, 19-Apr-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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I've just GOTTA stick my two cents into this one. I've been going to the same school district for 13 years; (I'm a senior, YAY!) good ol' Albia Community School District in Albia, IA. And they are the most bass-ackward bunch I've ever seen. They try (...) (25 years ago, 19-Apr-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) Maybe you were dyslexic on those apparently clockwise staircases. 8^) Or the defenders fought their way UP the clockwise staircases and DOWN the counterclockwise. Or maybe the lefthanded defenders fought on the clockwise steps... Hmm... Now (...) (25 years ago, 19-Apr-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) Are you sure? I've been to many castles - living in Britain you can't really avoid it... and I am certain that I've seen both types of spirals around and about :) Richard (25 years ago, 19-Apr-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) Uh, yeah, I noticed. I have a lot to rant about the US school system, and for that matter the Israeli one too. I do think the Israeli one (in which I spent most of my years) is slightly better, but not by much. The school I went to for the (...) (25 years ago, 19-Apr-00, to lugnet.off-topic.fun, lugnet.people, lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) Undeniably, but the ascending lefty's disadvantage wouldn't be as great an ascending rightie would have fighting up those same steps. (...) Im scandalized! No lefty would ever attempt such an un-chivalrous ploy! Dave! (...) (25 years ago, 19-Apr-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) I think you hit it right on the head--unless I'm mistaken, that's one of the reasons such staircases were built that way. Dave! (25 years ago, 19-Apr-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) You know, I never though much about this, but I pitch right and bat left - I'm sure that confused people in grade school ;-) Strangely enough, a LOT more than 10% of the people I know are left-handed. Something about my interests in general (...) (25 years ago, 19-Apr-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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Ah, but the defenders coming DOWN would be better off being right-handed - so I guess you'd start hating southpaws if you were defending ;-) (...) -- | Tom Stangl, Technical Support Netscape Communications Corp | Please do not associate my personal (...) (25 years ago, 19-Apr-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) BINGO - my teachers tried to force me to write right-handed. They luckily gave up after a while, because my handwriting is bad enough left-handed, right-handed I might as well be scrawling Sanscrit. (...) Well, that's because <groaner> "we (...) (25 years ago, 19-Apr-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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