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...derbelly of the enlightenment. It is the central rift that forms along the Mason-Dixon Line, and it is the paradox of America, i.e. liberty for some.
The Journal of Charles Mason and Jeremiah Dixon is full of passages where Mason's normally scientific writtings give way to poetic and gothic images of gho
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Perhaps a reference to Ray Charles' 1959 hit song, "What'd I Say," which features this line. [http://en.wikipe
...her" since "God the Father" is in the bread (i.e., transubstantiation) and Mason's biological father is associated with bread.
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01 May(OS): Charles Mason baptised
no-date: Mason learns baking (p204)
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...Penn (the state still bears the name meaning "woodlands of Penn") by King Charles II of England. This type of indirect rule eventually fell out of favor as
Mason and Dixon confirmed earlier survey work which delineated Delaware's souther
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'''Mason leaves the Forks of Brandywine'''<br>
...inal six towns within Kings County. The county was named in honor of King Charles II of England. From [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brooklyn WIKI]
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Charles Mason baptised
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Charles Mason was born in Oakridge Lynch, which is about 2 miles away from the Bisley in
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...was the director of the the Greenwich Observatory. He recommended Charles Mason who had been his assistant observer from 1756 to 1760, working closely with
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...who was in consequence made the object of a scurrilous attack by the poet Charles Churchill in " The Ghost." See A. Lang, Cock Lane and Common Sense (1894)"
..., eh? Much like the area her ghost will first physically reveal itself to Mason.
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...ed with the Industrial Revolution” – [http://www.hyperarts.com/pynchon/mason-dixon/alpha/i.html HyperArts entry: Invisible Hand]
...large private party - 18th cent.)” – [http://www.hyperarts.com/pynchon/mason-dixon/alpha/h.html HyperArts entry: Hurricanoe/Hurricane]
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St. Kenelm's church in Sapperton is the final resting place of Rebekah Mason. See [http://www.britainexpress.com/counties/glouces/churches/sapperton.htm
Pierre Charles Le Monnier (23 November 1715 – 31 May 1799) was a French astronomer. Fro
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'''Review of ''Mason & Dixon'' by Frank McConnell'''<br />
...t really want to be American. So am I telling you that if you don't read ''Mason & Dixon'' your life will be, by that measure, impoverished? You bet. Bu
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Charles Marie de La Condamine (January 28, 1701 – February 4, 1774) was a French
It is also further explored in ''Mason & Dixon'' on pages [[Chapter_61:_597-607#Page 603|603]], [[Chapter_73:_706-
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...isley in Surrey, or the church there associated with St. John the Baptist. Mason is from Gloucestershire county, where there is also a Bisley.
This Bisley church here is the same one where Mason references [http://masondixon.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=Chapter_
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====''Mason & Dixon'' Review by John Leonard====
...lights in the infernal bog and coffins disguised as claviers. Dixon tells Mason about the Arctic, from which aliens abducted him.
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...lthough not directly an assessment quotation, this letter from Voltaire to Charles Augustin Feriol, comte d'Argental (date uncertain – likely around 1763) i
...park grounds include Brown's Hill, the westernmost site from which Charles Mason and Jeremiah Dixon made astronomical observations during the original surve
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Charles Hutton (14 August 1737 – 27 January 1823) was an English mathematician...
...University of Pennsylvania, who Mason passed his scientific papers on to. Mason asked him to publish an American version of the Nautical Almanac, however,
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...aneuver and terrain to decisively defeat a much larger Austrian army under Charles of Lorraine, thus ensuring Prussian control of Silesia during the Seven Yea
...ther example of opposites; Dixon is buying a laxative based on alcohol for Mason, to cure constipation, and for himself, a cure for diarrhoea based on opium
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'''Field-Journals of Mason and Dixon'''<br>
...owe, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Thomas Mann, Hector Berlioz, Franz Liszt, Charles Gounod, Gustav Mahler, Mikhail Bulgakov, F. W. Murnau and Jan Švankmajer.
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