Subject: Re: US non-states and one trivia question<br/>
Date: Dec 05, 2001 @ 04:49<br/>
Author: acroorca2002 (&quot;acroorca2002&quot; &lt;orc@...&gt;)<br/>
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<div id="ygrps-yiv-61234693">--- In BoundaryPoint@y..., PitHokie &lt;pithokie@y...&gt; wrote:<br/>
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<blockquote><span title="ireply"> &gt; m,<br/>
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&gt; sorry for confusing the two!  do you have any<br/>
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&gt; reference for the one of which you speak?  was it<br/>
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&gt; actually recognized by congress?  <br/>
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 </span></blockquote>no it was evidently just an upstart wild west thing but briefly real<br/>
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source<br/>
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boundaries of the united states & the several states<br/>
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aka bus&ss or just the bible<br/>
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by franklin k van zandt<br/>
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p141<br/>
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<blockquote><span title="ireply"> &gt; i have never heard<br/>
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&gt; of such state but the possibility intrigues me.<br/>
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&gt; any sources/sites also for desert?  <br/>
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 </span></blockquote>deseret as in utah <br/>
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same book p159<br/>
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<blockquote><span title="ireply"> &gt; i know also an<br/>
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&gt; area at the corner of tn/va/ky considered life as the<br/>
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&gt; state of franklin, but i think we have talked about<br/>
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&gt; that before.<br/>
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 </span></blockquote>yes there are several like that that almost happened<br/>
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my favorite of these is the near reunion state of nickajack 1861<br/>
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centered on the algatn tristate point<br/>
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<blockquote><span title="ireply"> &gt; besides the continental divide(s), i wonder what other<br/>
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&gt; entities in the u.s. are marked with border-type<br/>
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&gt; markers?  perhaps some old territory boundaries are<br/>
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&gt; still marked?<br/>
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&gt; <br/>
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&gt; and one more question... what is the largest border<br/>
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&gt; marker/monument in the world?<br/>
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 </span></blockquote>probably the cairn at the tripoint of congo sudan & central african republic if i got them straight <br/>
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or dont they meet <br/>
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well anyway somewhere around there <br/>
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& i will try to dig out the pic<br/>
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m</div>