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Geography Lesson

6 10 2007

I was talking with a friend from Singapore today who taught me a lot of things including the fact that Singapore isn’t a part of China (maybe I’m just stupid for not knowing that) and it’s in fact a city and a country; a city-state, so to speak…

From there I went on a wikipedia binge and found out a bunch of other neat things, like Point Roberts in the USA which happens to be below the 49th parallel so it’s in the States but they’ve got no land path to the main land (map) – they have to go through Vancouver are to get there – funny! Similar to that, there’s the Northwest Angle in Minnesota which is only accessible to the mainland USA by driving through Manitoba (map).

In the interest of keeping-it-real, we should grab those hot areas and make them part of Canada. Another place we should make part of Canada that has been thought of before, is the Turks and Caicos Islands. Politicians have been trying to turn it into a province, or a territory, or even a part of Nova Scotia but it hasn’t worked yet. Canada really needs a sunny destination and that would be a huge hit with us.

Last one – ever wonder what the band 54-40 name means? It’s all tied to the Oregan boundary dispute – good reading!

Ok, off to watch the Habs win their first game!

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