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[Doug Millison]

At 9:49 AM -0400 10/20/99, FrodeauxB at aol.com wrote:
>Sorry this is late, but according to the AP, on 18 Oct 1767 the Mason-Dixon
>Line was accepted as the boundary between Maryland and Pennsylvania. Today in
>1803 the U.S. Senate ratified the Louisiana Purchase. Best deal the U.S. ever
>made.

Best for which people might be the Pynchonian question. We see in M&D that
moving west and claiming more land doesn't seem to do much good for the
native Americans, nor does this empire building do much for the black
slaves.


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