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 DS>   Isn't the shortest path from much of the US to Belgium gotten by
 DS>   heading north?

   Not for much of, only from Hawaii and north-western Alaska. Even from
Seattle the great circle runs over the southern tip of Greenland, I just
checked it the classic way: with a piece of string on a globe... :)

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