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Richard Sharpe sharpe at ns.aus.com
Wed Sep 6 22:26:35 WST 2000


At 10:40 PM 9/6/00 +0900, Richard Sharpe wrote:
>At 12:41 AM 9/7/00 +0800, Mike Holland wrote:
>>On Wed, 6 Sep 2000, Richard Sharpe wrote:
>>
>>> That is true. Japan and Canada for example, although, Canada is perhaps
>>> cheating, as it is almost the 53rd state of the Union.
>>
>>OK, I'll bite. Which are 51 and 52?
>
>Well, it seems I was wrong :-) I have always believed that there were 52
>states, but a check on http://www.123world.com/usstates/ (after running it
>through wc to check my counting) shows 51 states.  Of course, the site
>could be wrong, but the names look familiar.

Well, double blush. After checking with a US citizen, I looked at the data
on the web site, and found:

   Interlink Airlines as a state ...

Apologies for the noise.

>As to which is the 51st state, take your pick.

Obviously, Interlink Airlines ...

>>-- 
>>Mike Holland  <mike at golden.wattle.id.au>
>>                          --==--
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>
>Regards
>-------
>Richard Sharpe, sharpe at ns.aus.com
>Samba (Team member, www.samba.org), Ethereal (Team member, www.zing.org)
>Contributing author, SAMS Teach Yourself Samba in 24 Hours
>Author, Special Edition, Using Samba
>
>
>
>

Regards
-------
Richard Sharpe, sharpe at ns.aus.com
Samba (Team member, www.samba.org), Ethereal (Team member, www.zing.org)
Contributing author, SAMS Teach Yourself Samba in 24 Hours
Author, Special Edition, Using Samba





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