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North of Canada etc. If you have no idea how you got here, back up to here. If you do, the answer is that more than half of the fifty U.S. states, a total of 27 to be exact, are located wholly or in part north of the southernmost part of Canada, including such surprises as Iowa, Indiana, and Nevada, not to mention Rome, Italy. Below is the list, and a map is here, which you should go to.
(If you use Google Earth to check out any of my claims, note that when you zoom in far enough from the initial point above the United States, without changing anything else, you used to end UP in an apartment complex called Meadowbrook in Lawrence, Kansas, where I lived during the summer of 1977. Now I'm famous.) Go to the map page to see the 27 states and the 13 states and what I claim is a thorough, expert proof why each is correct. Also, learn a little about how we humans measure the Earth and stuff. No, really, do.
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Update of December 2001: What do Al and Elizabeth have in common in reverse? I declare that there are more names for the nickname Al than for any other nickname, and I declare that the name with the most nicknames is Elizabeth. Here are some names for the nickname Al. The count right now is 96.
Can you add any more full names for the nickname Al?
Now as to Elizabeth, she has the most nicknames. The current count is 79.
Can you add any more nicknames for Elizabeth?
Do you agree Al and Elizabeth win?
And abbreviating William makes sense to me. You shorten the name by four characters, or 57%, plus which if you're writing it you don't have to dot two "i's" you otherwise would have to. But Rob't. for Robert is the same number of characters, a savings of 0%, plus which you still have a "t" to cross. In what way is Rob't. better than Robert?
Rob't. E. Lee was the most famous Southern general of the U.S. Civil War. Another famous U.S. general (whose first name is Go, if that helps you
identify him) and his cohort also had odd ways of signing their names. Here are some of the 39 names signed at the bottom of the original U.S. Constitution.
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Update of December 2001: For some reason this summer I paid five dollars at a flea market in Eudora, Kansas, for a 1936 edition of Emily Post's famous Etiquette. She had some very definite opinions, and I thought you'd like to read one from page 695 that I just now got to.
And to think I don't care all that much whether my shoes match. (And on that exact same topic, Ms. Post's phrase "nothing worse or vulgar can be imagined" reminds me of a similarly hyperbolic phrase by Trent Lott at the top of this page.)
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Update of December 18, 2001: Long-time readers of this Web site have complained they wish I hadn't removed the section, from way back in 1996, titled, "Two Simple, Foolproof Methods to Make a Million Dollars in the Stock Market." I would reproduce it here but because of a hard drive crash and an earlier utter failure to back up same, I no longer have that section. But I can remember how the two simple, foolproof methods started, so let me reproduce just those, and maybe that'll jog your memory. Method #1. First, get a million dollars . . . |
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Update of December 22, 2001: Here's the tag line from a radio spot promoting the healthful, pastoral environment of a bed-and-breakfast hotel in the milk-cow and cheese belt of Wisconsin. "Come smell our dairy air." |
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Update of April 29, 2002: In this edition of The Kansas City Star, the Law referred to is Boston's Cardinal Bernard Law of the Roman Catholic Church.
The story is about the Church's reaction to the most recent spate of allegations
(and many confessions thereto) of sexual abuse committed by Catholic priests.
It seems to me the Church has set the bar kind of high. According to my analysis, you will not get defrocked as long as you meet any of the following criteria:
And I want to know exactly what is meant by two additional terms in that quote. One is the term guilty. Guilty in a civil lawsuit? A jury verdict in a criminal trial? A church inquiry? If it's a church inquiry, one has a right to wonder, based on the list above, just how tough it is to pass. The other is the term sexual abuse. Exactly how does the Roman Catholic Church define it? I really want to know.
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