I agree. I wasn't disparaging your four-year-old work. My concern was for
Fabio or anyone else who might possibly use some help in the updating and
correction that you said your list could stand. Otherwise, it is a truly
ambitious listing of the territorially discontiguous snippets of the USA.
Lowell G. McManus
Leesville, Louisiana, USA
----- 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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