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First of all, I'd be fascinated to see a line that's traveling. But I think I know

what you mean.

East-west lines drawn on a map or globe are part of some coordinate system

that's used to describe locations on the Earth's surface. One system that's very

popular and widely consulted is the system of latitude and longitude. In that

system, the east-west lines are parallels of constant latitude.

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