Subject: Fwd: knock knock<br/>
Date: Oct 20, 2003 @ 14:51<br/>
Author: Michael Donner (&quot;Michael Donner&quot; &lt;barbaria_longa@...&gt;)<br/>
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<div id="ygrps-yiv-990651961"><blockquote><span title="ireply">&gt;From: Anton Sherwood &lt;<a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="mailto:bronto@...">bronto@...</a>&gt;<br/>
&gt;To: <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="mailto:BoundaryPoint-owner@yahoogroups.com">BoundaryPoint-owner@yahoogroups.com</a><br/>
&gt;Subject: knock knock<br/>
&gt;Date: Sat, 18 Oct 2003 17:51:32 -0700<br/>
&gt;<br/>
&gt;Hi.  I was on the list a while back.  I return with one question, because <br/>
&gt;this group seems likely to know:<br/>
&gt;<br/>
&gt;I&#39;m curious about transfers of sovereignty by purchase.<br/>
&gt;The most recent one I know of is the Virgin Islands, 1917.<br/>
&gt;Any others since 1863 (Alaska)?<br/>
&gt;<br/>
&gt;--<br/>
&gt;Anton Sherwood, <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://www.ogre.nu/">http://www.ogre.nu/</a><br/>
&gt;<br/>
&gt;<br/>
<br/>
 </span></blockquote>for the record<br/>
this was the original formulation of the first of our several new truly <br/>
dinosaurian loophole ballpark queries<br/>
tho with the benefit of hindsight clearly it was initially understood only <br/>
as a regular elephantine one<br/>
<br/>
<br/>
& please note also that what may have appeared to be a true fruit salad riot<br/>
was & may well continue to be really just apples apples apples forever<br/>
<br/>
for yes we have achieved unlimited trypointing relevancy at last<br/>
because thankfully the target question was so vast<br/>
even as subsequently trimmed & retrimmed<br/>
<br/>
<br/>
obviously land sales are about as common as plain land grabs<br/>
if anyone were to stop & think about it<br/>
& maybe even more common<br/>
since payment is such a handy form of legitimization<br/>
<br/>
<br/>
but what an opportunity for anyone who wants to keep dishing their enormous <br/>
erudition<br/>
<br/>
<br/>
& what an opportunity also to study & critique our questions & quests <br/>
themselves<br/>
so as to be able to evaluate in advance what heart a prospective path or <br/>
objective might have before rushing to take it up<br/>
<br/>
<br/>
<br/>
<br/>
nothing less than multipointing itself is our bp birthright<br/>
while everything else is ancillary at best<br/>
if not actually a mess of pottage<br/>
<br/>
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