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Where two worlds touch and somebody always decides who gets through.
means A place where a road, river, border, or path can be traversed — the spot where you move from one side to the other.
from A plain compound of English bones: "cross," from Latin "crux" (the upright stake of a crucifixion), and "point," from Latin "punctum," a thing pricked or pinpointed. "Cross" entered English through the Church, naming the holy intersection of two beams, then drifted outward to mean any place where lines meet or are passed over. By the time it married "point," it simply marked the exact spot where one might get across — a ford, a bridge, a border gate.
- Checkpoint Charlie
- Cold War's most famous crossing, now a tourist photo op
- Animal version
- Wildlife corridors save migrating herds from highways
- Genetics
- Chromosomes literally swap DNA at crossover points
- Border power
- A single line determines language, currency, freedom
- Rubicon
- Caesar's river crossing meant war with no return
khyber pass — mountain pass between afghanistan and pakistan, used for 2,000+ years of trade and military campaigns
strait of gibraltar — 8.9 km waterway between spain and morocco, ~100,000 ships cross annually
checkpoint charlie — berlin wall crossing between east and west berlin during cold war (1961-1989)
darien gap — roadless jungle border zone between panama and colombia, major migration crossing point