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190; tavern Mason goes to in Stroud; 503; 556; 760
660; in Yochio Geni River; [[Charles Mason's Journal#ghost|Mason's Journal]]
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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
...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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[[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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''Mason & Dixon''<br />
...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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indoor Sister, Conspiracy" 305; 320; 394; 429; Mason's, 438; 479; unseen
...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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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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