They definitely play it up. That whole Thousand Island area is all over the place. Not that it matters too much. Canada/USA has largest undefended border in the world.
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They definitely play it up. That whole Thousand Island area is all over the place. Not that it matters too much. Canada/USA has largest undefended border in the world.
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Is that where the dressing comes from?
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On a related note, I only just found out ranch dressing is not so named because of associations with cattle and cowboys and such, but it was actually because a chef named William Ranch at a New York restaurant in the 1930s created it when he accidentally mixed mayonnaise and buttermilk, but because it was during the Depression instead of throwing it out he sampled it and found it delicious.
Also I made that all up.
Always hitting up that back page.... the flags !!
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In the last days of when it was acceptable for a teacher to hit a kid my Social Studies teacher belted me over the head with an atlas for talking while he was.
Love this sort of thing and pleasingly during the bonus week off the McGowan gave us, discovered ‘Geography King’ on You Tube. All about America, but some rally interesting stuff. Easy to watch and listen to.
Love this sort of thing and pleasingly during the bonus week off the McGowan gave us, discovered ‘Geography King’ on You Tube. All about America, but some rally interesting stuff. Easy to watch and listen to.
The older I get the more I appreciate the planet we are living on.
The Diomede Islands, where one can literally look into either tomorrow, or yesterday.
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Ones in Russia, the other is in the USA. They are on different sides of the date line, yet they only 2kms apartThe Diomede Islands, where one can literally look into either tomorrow, or yesterday.
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The Diomede Islands, where one can literally look into either tomorrow, or yesterday.
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wow! and NSW/QLD borderites complain about an hours diff!
The China timezone is the one that gets me. I mean, I know they don't care about the west of the country that much but they must be getting some pretty late sunsets.
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Not sure if said:
at the South Pole all directions are north, and at the North Pole all directions are south.
at the South Pole all directions are north, and at the North Pole all directions are south.
As far as I can tell with 10 seconds of research, the sun can set as late as 9.30/10pm in summer in Urumqi, one the larger cities out west.
The sun also rises as late as 8.45am in the winter months.
That's not as bad as I thought actually. I kind of liked it when I lived in Edmonton and the sun didn't set until 11pm. Was good for summer BBQs.
Care about the well-being of the west would have been a more accurate statement.
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