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Mark Swan
 Post subject: who is Mason Dixon? :)
PostPosted: Thu Sep 23, 2010 10:35 pm 
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New Cadet still in training , just saying hello! Hope to Battle you guys soon :)

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mason%E2%80%93Dixon_Line

Full info on what and who are Mason and Dixon. :)

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Thanks, It clears it-up :) never heard of it before though :)
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Ask Ned Simms, I think he went to school with them. :lol:

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Yes, I remember them from grade school. Charles Mason never could stay between the lines while coloring and Jeremiah Dixon couldn't draw a straight line. It's no surprise then that they grew up to be surveyors. They did move on though and I stayed in grade school - for decades.

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Thought they were some of Ned's family, from the hills of West Virginia :lol:

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