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Date:      Wed, 22 May 2002 16:21:44 +0930
From:      Greg 'groggy' Lehey <grog@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com>
Cc:        Brad Knowles <brad.knowles@skynet.be>, Annelise Anderson <andrsn@ANDRSN.STANFORD.EDU>, Jamie Bowden <ragnar@sysabend.org>, Rahul Siddharthan <rsidd@online.fr>, Alexey Dokuchaev <danfe@regency.nsu.ru>, chat@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Country names (was: cvs commit: src/sys/alpha/alpha clock.c)
Message-ID:  <20020522162144.F45715@wantadilla.lemis.com>
In-Reply-To: <3CEB3B8C.9FD6AD0E@mindspring.com>
References:  <Pine.BSF.4.10.10205211257490.26365-100000@andrsn.stanford.edu> <p05111712b9107dce9658@[10.0.1.4]> <3CEAE187.FC1CC966@mindspring.com> <p0511171eb910959a28f6@[10.0.1.4]> <20020522114303.D26107@wantadilla.lemis.com> <3CEB391E.C9C46A50@mindspring.com> <20020522155814.E45715@wantadilla.lemis.com> <3CEB3B8C.9FD6AD0E@mindspring.com>

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On Tuesday, 21 May 2002 at 23:32:44 -0700, Terry Lambert wrote:
> Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote:
>> On Tuesday, 21 May 2002 at 23:22:22 -0700, Terry Lambert wrote:
>>> Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote:
>>>> Well, "United States" is not unique.  There are two sets in North
>>>> America alone.
>>>
>>> Since you can't mean Canada, because of that whole Quebec thing,
>>> you must mean the states above and below the Manson-Nixon line.
>>>
>>> Er, Mason-Dixon line.
>>
>> Nope.  "The United States of Mexico".
>
> Continental North America.  Geopolitically, they are split
> between North and Central America.

Where does that definition come from?  I thought North America went
down as far as Panama.

Greg
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