Re: [HoE] [HOE] General Stuff

[Allan Seyberth <darious@darious.com>]

>2. Is there any good maps except the map in HOE: wasted west??
>Like where does the Mason - Dixon wall run??

No good maps, but as for the Mason-Dixon:
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The Mason-Dixon Line

Nowadays, the name Mason-Dixon line is used colloquially to mean the
boundary between the northern and southern states - between the Union and the
Confederacy during the American Civil War - between the free states and the
slave states. 

One theory for the origination of the name of Dixie to refer to the
Confederate states is that it came from the Mason-Dixon line. 

Historically, the Mason-Dixon line was the boundary between Maryland and
Pennsylvania, first surveyed in 1763 to 1767 by two British astronomers,
Charles
Mason and Jeremiah Dixon, in order to settle a dispute between the Calvert
and Penn families, the owners of the two states in question at that time. 

From 1820 onward the name Mason-Dixon line came to mean the boundary
between free and slave states, and included not only the original line but
also the Ohio
River from where it crosses the Pennsylvania border to where it flows into
the Mississippi, the eastern, northern and western borders of Missouri, and
the 36
degrees 30 minutes parallel westward from there. 

The Maryland Question

The above description implies that Maryland was a Confederate state. In
fact it wasn't and it fought on the side of the Union in the American Civil
War. However,
Maryland was a slave state and many Marylanders served in the Confederate
army. 
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Allan Seyberth
darious@darious.com

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