Geag/Lars,
We have only One Melbourne here, city of 2m+, in a state of ~4-4.5m. To get
150,000 people out is big turn out, about the same as final football game of
a season. We used to have a football ground that held 140,000, but its now
down to 115,000 or so as much of the standing room was converted to seating.

Where was the biggest audience ever to watch a Baseball game? Melbourne,
1956 Olympics demo game, in this arena, Melb Cricket Ground, I am told.
jp
----- Original Message -----
From: "Greg Chaplin" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>; <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Tuesday, February 18, 2003 9:54 AM
Subject: Re: The peace marches


> Yes, I saw that, and was going to send a message
> but got hit by a lump of work.
>
> So, hi John in Melbourne, from Greg in Melbourne :-)
>
> Sydney, Australia, had over 200,000 people gathered
> (apparently too many to march, so they all just collected
> together in the city).
>
> >>> Lars Appel <[log in to unmask]> 17/02/2003 20:06:48 pm >>>
> John,
>
> >hear hear!!!
> >In my Melbourne (oz), similar sized march.
>
> How many Melbourne's do you have in Australia? Guessing from
> your and Greg's eMail address, there might be an explanation
> why you saw similar sized marches ;-)
>
> Lars.
>
>
> PS: Here in Germany the news spoke about 500,000 people in Berlin,
> as far as I recall. And they mentioned that it was something like
> three times as many as the organizers had expected.

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