Tilted Forum Project Discussion Community  

Go Back   Tilted Forum Project Discussion Community > Chatter > General Discussion


 
 
LinkBack Thread Tools
Old 02-22-2005, 04:18 PM   #1 (permalink)
Currently sour but formerly Dlishs
 
dlish's Avatar
 
Super Moderator
Location: Australia/UAE
american geography/surveying history

i need some help..

theres a surveyors line that runs across the USA that was done way back ..starts in MA, and goes across the country. the line was named after the two surveyors that surveyed the country... from memory, it divided nth and the sth states? i cant remember exactly, but been trying to look for it lately but cant find it?!!? its called The "something something Line" insert name of surveyor where "something" is...

sorry im not american, so excuse my ignorance on this topic. anyone have a clue?

thanks
__________________
An injustice anywhere, is an injustice everywhere

I always sign my facebook comments with ()()===========(}. Does that make me gay?
- Filthy
dlish is offline  
Old 02-22-2005, 04:19 PM   #2 (permalink)
Insane
 
Location: USA
mason-dixon line?
Arroe is offline  
Old 02-22-2005, 04:41 PM   #3 (permalink)
Currently sour but formerly Dlishs
 
dlish's Avatar
 
Super Moderator
Location: Australia/UAE
yes! thank you!!!!!
__________________
An injustice anywhere, is an injustice everywhere

I always sign my facebook comments with ()()===========(}. Does that make me gay?
- Filthy
dlish is offline  
Old 02-22-2005, 05:10 PM   #4 (permalink)
Psycho
 
william's Avatar
 
I don't know for sure that it was a surveyors line that the Mason-Dixon was made. If it was, it wasn't a North-South divider. Many say it was the North-South divider; but that wasn't really a line that could be drawn. Originally, the line started between Maryland and Pennsylvania, going west.
N-S divider lines ran more between the states: VA vs WVA; TN/KN vs OH. I have family members that argued it out in MO and IL(Union v. Confed.), living in-state. And then you have the western states, or territories, that really didn't want any part of it.
william is offline  
Old 02-22-2005, 08:49 PM   #5 (permalink)
Llama
 
goddfather40's Avatar
 
Location: Cali-for-nye-a
Quote:
Originally Posted by dlishsguy
i need some help..

theres a surveyors line that runs across the USA that was done way back ..starts in MA
For future reference, MA is actually the abbreviation for Massachusetts, MD is the abbreviation for Maryland.
__________________
My name is goddfather40 and I approved this message.

I got ho's and I got bitches,
In C++ I branch with switches

-MC Plus+
goddfather40 is offline  
Old 02-23-2005, 05:24 AM   #6 (permalink)
Currently sour but formerly Dlishs
 
dlish's Avatar
 
Super Moderator
Location: Australia/UAE
my humble apologies godfather

being an aussie and all, i do have trouble remembering all fifty something states americans have, let alone the abberviations..guess i tried

...all we have is a 5 states and 2 territories..(and even then i had to count them in my head )

anyways thank for your helps guys, ive googled it, so thanks heaps
__________________
An injustice anywhere, is an injustice everywhere

I always sign my facebook comments with ()()===========(}. Does that make me gay?
- Filthy
dlish is offline  
Old 02-23-2005, 06:01 AM   #7 (permalink)
 
roachboy's Avatar
 
Super Moderator
Location: essex ma
thomas pynchon wrote a fairly cool novel about mason and dixon. that's what it is called.
__________________
a gramophone its corrugated trumpet silver handle
spinning dog. such faithfulness it hear

it make you sick.

-kamau brathwaite
roachboy is offline  
 

Tags
american, geography or surveying, history


Posting Rules
You may not post new threads
You may not post replies
You may not post attachments
You may not edit your posts

BB code is On
Smilies are On
[IMG] code is On
HTML code is Off
Trackbacks are On
Pingbacks are On
Refbacks are On



All times are GMT -8. The time now is 02:08 AM.

Tilted Forum Project

Powered by vBulletin® Version 3.8.7
Copyright ©2000 - 2024, vBulletin Solutions, Inc.
Search Engine Optimization by vBSEO 3.6.0 PL2
© 2002-2012 Tilted Forum Project

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 51 52 53 54 55 56 57 58 59 60 61 62 63 64 65 66 67 68 69 70 71 72 73 74 75 76 77 78 79 80 81 82 83 84 85 86 87 88 89 90 91 92 93 94 95 96 97 98 99 100 101 102 103 104 105 106 107 108 109 110 111 112 113 114 115 116 117 118 119 120 121 122 123 124 125 126 127 128 129 130 131 132 133 134 135 136 137 138 139 140 141 142 143 144 145 146 147 148 149 150 151 152 153 154 155 156 157 158 159 160 161 162 163 164 165 166 167 168 169 170 171 172 173 174 175 176 177 178 179 180 181 182 183 184 185 186 187 188 189 190 191 192 193 194 195 196 197 198 199 200 201 202 203 204 205 206 207 208 209 210 211 212 213 214 215 216 217 218 219 220 221 222 223 224 225 226 227 228 229 230 231 232 233 234 235 236 237 238 239 240 241 242 243 244 245 246 247 248 249 250 251 252 253 254 255 256 257 258 259 260 261 262 263 264 265 266 267 268 269 270 271 272 273 274 275 276 277 278 279 280 281 282 283 284 285 286 287 288 289 290 291 292 293 294 295 296 297 298 299 300 301 302 303 304 305 306 307 308 309 310 311 312 313 314 315 316 317 318 319 320 321 322 323 324 325 326 327 328 329 330 331 332 333 334 335 336 337 338 339 340 341 342 343 344 345 346 347 348 349 350 351 352 353 354 355 356 357 358 359 360