Subject: Re: [BoundaryPoint] Re: U.S. External Territories list
Date: Apr 11, 2005 @ 22:29
Author: Lowell G. McManus ("Lowell G. McManus" <mcmanus71496@...>)
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----- Original Message -----
From: "aletheiak" <aletheiak@...>
To: <BoundaryPoint@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Monday, April 11, 2005 4:03 PM
Subject: [BoundaryPoint] Re: U.S. External Territories list
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> interesting tho i too should point out for whomever is interested in pointing
> things out
> that i have already pointed out once today that the original crude try that i
> made 4 years
> ago in message 2240 could stand some minor updating & corrections today
> with the benefit of the hindsight of the intervening 4 years of research
> none of which however
> i should point out with added emphasis now
> affects in any way the point i was making earlier today
> about the external territories of the united states
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> --- In BoundaryPoint@yahoogroups.com, "Lowell G. McManus" <mcmanus71496@m...>
> wrote:
>> Interesting. However, I should point out that Louisiana and Washington have
>> subsequently been proven to be contiguous after all--the Chandeleur Islands
>> and
>> Point Roberts being connected to their respective states' land masses by
>> state
>> waters. The archives may be searched for the proofs by whomever is
>> interested.
>>
>> Lowell G. McManus
>> Leesville, Louisiana, USA
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>>
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "aletheiak" <aletheiak@y...>
>> To: <BoundaryPoint@yahoogroups.com>
>> Sent: Monday, April 11, 2005 2:47 PM
>> Subject: [BoundaryPoint] Re: U.S. External Territories list
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>> > this of course is the conventional list found in standard reference sources
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>> > but in reality the list of actually external sovereign territories of the
>> > usa
>> > is much longer
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>> >
>> > & i mean not even counting any of the silly military or diplomatic or
>> > ceremonial or other
>> > miscellaneous parcels of nonsovereign or semisovereign real estate
>> > properties
>> > &or
>> > leaseholds that people are so fond of discovering & reporting & discussing
>> > as
>> > if they really
>> > counted
>> >
>> >
>> > for tho it could stand some minor updating & corrections
>> > http://egroups.com/group/BoundaryPoint/message/2240
>> > ultimately identifies as many as 52 noncontiguous territories of the usa
>> > all presumably still extant & distinct sovereign spaces
>> > unless i am mistaken
>> >
>> > & while several of these disjunct spaces are legal parts of the 50 united
>> > states per se
>> > & thus might not be considered external despite their territorial
>> > disconnection
>> > nevertheless roughly 3 dozens of these territories are still fully external
>> > to
>> > the usa as such
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