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From: paul@uofm-cv.UUCP (Paul 'da Kingfish' Killey)
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Subject: Re: Do people walk to the left in England?
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Date: Thu, 17-Nov-83 14:33:31 EST
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Posted: Thu Nov 17 14:33:31 1983
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A reason for that I have heard runs something like this:

In England, Knights in Armor wanted their opponents on their sword hand
side, so they rode on the left side of the road.  In America, people
were more into driving teams of horses, 40 mule teams, etc.  They wanted
their animals to be on their whip hand sides, and walked to the left 
of their wagons, which were on the right side of the road.  Also,
it kept the driver and wagon out of the ditch, etc.

Is this what the question was about.