thanx tho you know my inputs here are all play & never work
nor do i care when they are disparaged
but do feel free to make all the work & snippets you like of them
--- In
BoundaryPoint@yahoogroups.com, "Lowell G. McManus" <mcmanus71496@m...>
wrote:
> 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@y...>
> To: <BoundaryPoint@yahoogroups.com>
> Sent: Monday, April 11, 2005 4:03 PM
> Subject: [BoundaryPoint] Re: U.S. External Territories list
>
>
> >
> >
> > 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
> >
> > --- 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
> >>
> >>
> >> ----- 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
> >>
> >>
> >> >
> >> >
> >> > this of course is the conventional list found in standard reference sources
> >> >
> >> > but in reality the list of actually external sovereign territories of the
> >> > usa
> >> > is much longer
> >> >
> >> >
> >> > & 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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> >
> >
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