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   From: allsortsnotthisbit@howhill.co.uk   
      
   On Tue, 31 Jan 2012 08:02:25 -0000, David Looser wrote:   
      
   > The story goes that it was Napoleon who imposed driving on the right (or   
   > more accurately in those pre-motor vehicle days passing oncoming traffic   
   > on the right) onto a continent that up until then had mostly still   
   > followed the old Roman rule of passing on the left.   
      
   Hum, I wonder of that has anything to do with which hand one would   
   have ones sword in? Most people are right handed so being on the   
   right makes it harder to take a swipe at some one passing.   
      
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   Dave.   
      
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