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...p://kikoshouse.blogspot.com/2007/09/book-review-against-day.html here]), ''Mason & Dixon'' is complex, wonderfully subversive and laugh-out-loud funny. But
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[[Chapter_28:_275-288#Page_282|282]]; A clause from Charles II's <i>Charter of Carolina </i> (1663) that invokes the extra authority tr
...ikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Braddock WIKI] See also [[Charles Mason's Journal|Mason's Journal Entry]]. An excellent description of [http://www.britishbattles.
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"Oxford Methodists." In 1735 Wesley and his brother Charles went on a
554; printed "Pennsylvania's Fair Copy of the Field-Journals of Mason and
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170; village about 8 miles east of [[#stroud|Stroud]], and Mason's hometown; 719 [http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=en&q=Sapperton,+Glouces
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...een 1763 and 1767, established the southern boundary of Pennsylvania—the Mason-Dixon Line, which eventually named the border between the slave states and
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'''Mason, Anne'''<br />
20; Charles' 17-year-old sister
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205; Charles Mason's mother
359; 378; 387; 394; 409; 435; 477; 492-93; Captives, 529-30; 531; Mason's,
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...fford|Thomas Strafford]] for his ruthless policies in Ireland on behalf of Charles I. Pym's motive was more power.
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199; Charles Mason's sister, married to Elroy; 762
...oatswain (pronounced "bo's'n") on the ''Seahorse'', the frigate that takes Mason and Dixon to Cape of Good Hope. His name is a pun on the [http://en.wikiped
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...ested to King Charles II that he establish a royal observatory, which King Charles did (at Greenwich in 1676) and appointed Flamsteed first astronomer royal;
...y 1746. This lost battle ended the risings of the Jacobites, though Prince Charles escaped and went into hiding for several months before leaving Scotland; Af
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...at the mouth of Delaware Bay, opposite Cape May, NJ. The beginning of the
Mason-Dixon line is about twenty miles south of Cape Henlopen, at the Fenwick Isl
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Charles I (1600-49)'''<br />
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167; location of parish church where Mason met Rebekah
177; brig seen by Mason in a Chronoscope in Jenkin's Ear Museum
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...was celebrated as the true heirs — in fact and song and story: Prince Charles Edward Stuart ("Bonnie Prince Charlie, the Young Pretender"), the grandson
336; aka, James Stuart, Duke of York, brother of Charles II, and king of England from 1685-88;
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247; Mason's pronounciation of Lark, his sarcastic description of Dixon as a singing b
'''Lemonniere, Pierre Charles (1715-99)'''<br />
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...t to Barbados as chaplain to her majesty's ship Louisa, accompanied by Mr. Charles Green. His astronomical observations there were presented to the Royal Soci
...nomy, i. 398, 1797). He discussed the geodetical data furnished by Charles Mason (1730-1787) [q.v.] and Dixon from Maryland (Phil. Trans. lviii. 323), expla
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...observe the 1761 transit of Venus, and, probably on Bird's recommendation, Mason suggested Dixon should go as his assistant. An encounter with a French frig
...stmas 1763. When work for the proprietors on what was to become the famous Mason-Dixon line was complete late in 1766, they began on the Royal Society's beh
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...sfully observed the transit there, and on 16 Oct reached St. Helena, where Mason co-operated with Nevil Maskelyne until Dec 1761 in collecting tidal data.
...ty on 24 Nov. 1768, and were discussed by Maskelyne (ib. lviii. 270, 323). Mason and Dixon observed in Pennsylvania in 1766-7 the variation of gravity from
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...er for more than a decade. This is easy to believe. At nearly 800 pages, ''Mason & Dixon'' is obviously meant to quash the idea that ''Gravity's Rainbow
...tyle because this is a historical novel about the famous surveyors Charles Mason and Jeremiah Dixon — mappers of the border between Pennsylvania and Ma
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...nds Dixon's 'joak' to fail, to heighten the characters' mutual discomfort; Mason's response is no kind of punchline, and scarcely seems to justify Dixon's a
...highwayman Dick Turpin from London to York, also in The Pickwick Papers by Charles Dickens. The cockade could be have broad outlaw/rebel connotations of the t
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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
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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.
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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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'''Second Charles'''<br>
...nnot go...That is...if it pleases your Your Grace." Practically speaking, Mason's 'refusal' follows the same logic as Bartleby's famous rebuttal, "I prefer
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