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Hawaiian earring

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The Hawaiian earring is the subset of the plane consists of infinitely many circles with just one point in common:

$n$-th circle is centered at $\frac{1}{n}$ radius $(\frac{1}{n},0), n=1,2,3,... $

The circles have only $(0,0)$ in common. The space is