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    The MasonDixon line, also called the Mason and Dixon line or Mason's and Dixon's line, is a demarcation line separating four U.S. states, constituting...
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    Mason & Dixon is a postmodernist novel by American author Thomas Pynchon, published in 1997. It presents a fictionalized account of the collaboration...
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    American history, particularly through his survey with Jeremiah Dixon of the MasonDixon line, which came to mark the border between Maryland and Pennsylvania...
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    called the MasonDixon line. Dixon was born in Cockfield, near Bishop Auckland, County Durham, in 1733, one of seven children, to George Dixon, a coal mine...
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  • Mason Dixon may refer to: MasonDixon line separating Delaware and Pennsylvania from Maryland, surveyed 1763–1767 Mason & Dixon, the 1997 novel by Thomas...
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    it is below the MasonDixon line. If the origin of the term Dixie is accepted as referring to the region south and west of that line (which excludes Delaware...
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    Delaware Wedge (category MasonDixon line)
    extension of the east–west portion of the MasonDixon line, on the west by the north–south portion of the MasonDixon line, and on the southeast by the Twelve-Mile...
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    of Cancer. Any axis about which an object spins is an imaginary line. MasonDixon line, which informally marks pieces of the borders of four U.S. states:...
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    southern endpoint of the MasonDixon Line. Penn–Calvert Boundary Dispute The Wedge The Twelve-Mile Circle MasonDixon line Nicholas Wainwright, "Tale...
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    which consisted of "hillbilly" vocals and instrumentation with a boogie bass line. After World War II, The Maddox Brothers and Rose were at "the leading edge...
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  • line was drawn in 1493 after Christopher Columbus returned from his maiden voyage to the Americas. The MasonDixon line (or "Mason and Dixon's Line")...
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  • Maryland—Pennsylvania state line, which once marked the MasonDixon line. A variant name was "Mason-Dixon". A post office called Mason And Dixon was established in...
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    surveyors, Charles Mason and Jeremiah Dixon, to establish a boundary between the colonies. They surveyed what became known as the MasonDixon Line, which became...
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  • African-American to play in a college basketball game south of the Mason-Dixon line. In 1950, Cooper and two others--Nat "Sweetwater" Clifton and Earl...
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  • (disambiguation) Masson (disambiguation) Justice Mason (disambiguation) Mason-Dixon line William Mason (locomotive), currently on display at the Baltimore...
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    River. A small portion of the circle, known as the "Arc Line," forms part of the Mason-Dixon line in the United States that separates Delaware and Maryland...
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    Boundary Commission oversaw the development and completion of the MasonDixon line between Pennsylvania and Maryland. On June 19, 1754, the Albany Congress...
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  • predominantly from states bordering the eponymous MasonDixon line. A similarly named Mason-Dixon Athletic Conference began play in NCAA Division II...
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    Star Gazers' Stone (category MasonDixon line)
    1764 by Charles Mason and Jeremiah Dixon which they used in their survey of the Mason-Dixon line. The stone was placed by Mason and Dixon about 700 feet...
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    proposed new country's northern border would roughly coincide with the MasonDixon line, and within it were included such cities as Washington, D.C., St. Louis...
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    shortly before ending at Chadds Ford. It is named for the historic MasonDixon line, which it crosses twice. About one-third of the route follows roads...
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    United States, separated from the Northeastern United States by the MasonDixon line, or the South of England, which is politically and economically unmatched...
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  • native guides and interpreters began surveying what would become the Mason-Dixon line. During this time, McClean became Deputy Surveyor for Western York...
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    Northern panhandle of West Virginia (category MasonDixon line)
    The northern panhandle is one of the two panhandles in the U.S. state of West Virginia. It is a culturally and geographically distinct region of the state...
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    north to Maryland and West Virginia, bordering the Ohio River and MasonDixon line, and stretches west to Arkansas and Louisiana. There is no official...
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    would settle the final boundaries of the Northeastern states. The Mason-Dixon line would be established as the border of slavery, following the border...
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  • carries the nickname of Utah's Dixie. It is a pun on the well known Mason-Dixon line, that is an unofficial barrier that delineates where the American south...
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    Missouri Compromise of 1820, the dividing line between the slave and free states was called the Mason-Dixon line (between Maryland and Pennsylvania), with...
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    Historically, the South was defined as all states south of the 18th-century MasonDixon line, the Ohio River, and 36°30′ parallel. Within the South are different...
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    Washington–Baltimore metropolitan area. It is two miles north of the MasonDixon line and close to Camp David and the Raven Rock Mountain Complex. The population...
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