From owner-freebsd-chat Thu May 23 16:24:12 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from rwcrmhc53.attbi.com (rwcrmhc53.attbi.com [204.127.198.39]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2B1E737B40A; Thu, 23 May 2002 16:24:07 -0700 (PDT) Received: from blossom.cjclark.org ([12.234.91.48]) by rwcrmhc53.attbi.com (InterMail vM.4.01.03.27 201-229-121-127-20010626) with ESMTP id <20020523232406.TRKV11659.rwcrmhc53.attbi.com@blossom.cjclark.org>; Thu, 23 May 2002 23:24:06 +0000 Received: (from cjc@localhost) by blossom.cjclark.org (8.11.6/8.11.6) id g4NNO4b88427; Thu, 23 May 2002 16:24:04 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from crist.clark@attbi.com) X-Authentication-Warning: blossom.cjclark.org: cjc set sender to crist.clark@attbi.com using -f Date: Thu, 23 May 2002 16:24:04 -0700 From: "Crist J. Clark" To: Brad Knowles Cc: Terry Lambert , "Greg 'groggy' Lehey" , Annelise Anderson , Jamie Bowden , Rahul Siddharthan , Alexey Dokuchaev , chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Country names (was: cvs commit: src/sys/alpha/alpha clock.c) Message-ID: <20020523162404.B88093@blossom.cjclark.org> Reply-To: "Crist J. Clark" References: <3CEAE187.FC1CC966@mindspring.com> <20020522114303.D26107@wantadilla.lemis.com> <3CEB391E.C9C46A50@mindspring.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: ; from brad.knowles@skynet.be on Wed, May 22, 2002 at 09:33:46AM +0200 X-URL: http://people.freebsd.org/~cjc/ Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Wed, May 22, 2002 at 09:33:46AM +0200, Brad Knowles wrote: > At 11:22 PM -0700 2002/05/21, Terry Lambert wrote: > > > Er, Mason-Dixon line. > > Which is a complete mis-nomer, because it is not a proper > division between the states which were in the Union and the states > which were in the Confederacy. Why do you think that West Virginia > was formed? And of course, Maryland, a Union state, is south of the Mason-Dixon line, as is Washington D.C. itself. Don't hold me to this, but the Mason-Dixon line orginally meant the border between Pennsylvania and Maryland long before the War Between the States. However, the Mason-Dixon line is associated with North-South politics due to its use in the Missouri Compromise of 1820 which extended the Mason-Dixon west to serve as a boundary for the free versus slave status future US territories. Land north of the boundary would become free states and south would become slave. -- Crist J. Clark | cjclark@alum.mit.edu | cjclark@jhu.edu http://people.freebsd.org/~cjc/ | cjc@freebsd.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message