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Raymond Wed Mar 16, 2011 03:28pm
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Originally Posted by 26 Year Gap (Post 740543)
That would be Alburg, Vermont. I have gone through there many times. I've even stopped there a few times. I think they officially added an 'h' to the town name to sound more archaic. Bridges from Swanton, VT; North Hero, VT; and Rouses Point, NY, are the other access points.
I new you would respond to this one. :cool: Saw it on "How the States Were Created". There was also a long segment about Derby Line, VT in that show.

26 Year Gap Wed Mar 16, 2011 03:30pm
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Originally Posted by BadNewsRef (Post 740547)
I knew you would respond to this one. :cool: Saw it on "How the States Were Created". There was also a long segment about Derby Line, VT in that show.
Did it talk about the Haskell Opera House? The stage is in Canada and most of the seats are in the US. Or Ft Blunder near Rouses Point? It was built NORTH of the border by mistake.

Raymond Wed Mar 16, 2011 03:37pm
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Originally Posted by 26 Year Gap (Post 740549)
Did it talk about the Haskell Opera House? The stage is in Canada and most of the seats are in the US. Or Ft Blunder near Rouses Point? It was built NORTH of the border by mistake.
I know they talked about the library, don't remember if they brought up the opera house.

Ft. Blunder was on the show. I missed part of that segment and was a little lost as to what they were talking about.

26 Year Gap Wed Mar 16, 2011 03:53pm
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Originally Posted by BadNewsRef (Post 740551)
I know they talked about the library, don't remember if they brought up the opera house.

Ft. Blunder was on the show. I missed part of that segment and was a little lost as to what they were talking about.
The library is on the first floor. The Opera House is on the upper floors. The border goes through that building and a few others on that street. Revolutionary War era Ft Blunder was on Lake Champlain at the entrance into the US, except that it was built on the wrong side of the border.

BillyMac Wed Mar 16, 2011 05:28pm
Are You Smarter Than A Fifth Grader ???
 
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Originally Posted by Welpe (Post 740449)
West Carolina.
During college football season I keep hearing scores for East Carolina. What is the capital of East Carolina?

BillyMac Wed Mar 16, 2011 05:34pm
If You Don’t Like The Weather In New England, Just Wait A Few Minutes (Mark Twain) ..
 
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Originally Posted by bainsey (Post 740542)
Conversely, there's an Canadian island -- Campobello, New Brunswick, that is only accessible via a bridge in Maine, or a ferry via another New Brunswick island. If you take the bridge, you have to drive another hour through eastern Maine to get to mainland New Brunswick.
Further proof that the New England saying, "You can't get there from here.", is true.

Judtech Wed Mar 16, 2011 05:54pm
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Originally Posted by BadNewsRef (Post 740547)
I new you would respond to this one. :cool: Saw it on "How the States Were Created". There was also a long segment about Derby Line, VT in that show.
That was a great show!!! My only issue with it was there was so MUCH information, you need to watch it a ton to get all the info

Camron Rust Wed Mar 16, 2011 06:25pm
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Originally Posted by JugglingReferee (Post 740523)
More trivia:

How many places on earth can you travel 1 mile south, 1 mile west, then 1 mile north, and then end up at the exact same spot in which you started?
The same place you could put my wife and tell her to go south and she'd be guaranteed to get the directions right. :p

Camron Rust Wed Mar 16, 2011 06:31pm
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Originally Posted by Snaqwells (Post 740528)
Okay, how about this one.
How many points can you travel 1 mile south, one mile north, one mile east, and end up where you started?
Any point south of the north pole such that 1 mile is an integer multiple (including 1) of the circumference of the circle of latitude. If it is more than one, you'll pass the point before returning to it at the end of the mile.

JugglingReferee Wed Mar 16, 2011 06:48pm
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Originally Posted by Camron Rust (Post 740578)
The same place you could put my wife and tell her to go south and she'd be guaranteed to get the directions right. :p
Incorrect.

26 Year Gap Wed Mar 16, 2011 08:59pm
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Originally Posted by bainsey (Post 740542)
Conversely, there's an Canadian island -- Campobello, New Brunswick -- that is only accessible via a bridge in Maine, or a ferry via another New Brunswick island. If you take the bridge, you have to drive another hour through eastern Maine to get to mainland New Brunswick. (Gap knows the road.) I've often wondered if Canada would take the Northwest Angle in a trade for Campobello.
Yep. Roosevelt, the one on the dime, supposedly picked up polio while swimming at his summer place there. The bridge was built from Lubec, ME, in 1965. You go back in time when going from Campobello to Lubec. Literally, because NB is in the Atlantic Time Zone. My HS team won the inaugural Eastern Maine Class C Soccer Championship at Lubec HS back in the day.

Adam Wed Mar 16, 2011 10:25pm
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Originally Posted by Camron Rust (Post 740580)
Any point south of the north pole such that 1 mile is an integer multiple (including 1) of the circumference of the circle of latitude. If it is more than one, you'll pass the point before returning to it at the end of the mile.
That'll work, too, but there's another set of points that works as well.


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