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I saw THIS on the BBC website today. Ok, I'll hold my hands up and show my ignorance, I never knew Mason & Dixon were Brits (rather than US-born to settlers).  (Though in my defence, I've never looking into the history of it before !) .
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Interesting, in school we are taught about the Mason-Dixon Line, but very little of the background leading up to it. Like you I assumed they were decedent's of earlier settlers. Recently I did a family tree DNA test, results of 72% British Isles. Like a lot of us American mutts, we have some Britt in us. 
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Very interesting bit O history thanks for bringing it up. Like Robert said many of us have British Isles in our heritage.
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Damn, I learned something!
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Damn, I learned something!
Hate it when that happens! 
I learned all I need to know about life by killing smart people and eating their brains.
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Damn, I learned something!
Hate it when that happens!
These days, I'm like Homer Simpson - ever time I learn something new it pushing some old stuff out of my brain.
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I thought you was talking about these guys... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=85jcW6Kir00
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Damn, I learned something!
Hate it when that happens!
These days, I'm like Homer Simpson - ever time I learn something new it pushing some old stuff out of my brain.
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I know what you mean, I read your link now I don't know math.
I learned all I need to know about life by killing smart people and eating their brains.
Eat right ,Exercise ,Stay fit, Die Anyway!
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Interesting. I knew of the Mason Dixon line but never knew the whys and wherefores of it.Dixie got it's name from Dixon ,I didn't know that either.
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Damn, I learned something!
Hate it when that happens!
These days, I'm like Homer Simpson - ever time I learn something new it pushing some old stuff out of my brain.
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I know what you mean, I read your link now I don't know math.
Dinosaur.
"Oh Man I only ride 'em.I don't know what makes 'em work". Donald "Oddball" Sutherland
"Don't let the bastards get you down". Kris Kristofferson
"I am only paranoid because everyone is against me". Larry [Frank Burns] Linville
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Not surprised by the fact the Mason & Dixon were from England and by extension ordered to do the work in America by the Crown. America was still an English colony and enterprise when they started their endeavor a full ten years before the American War of Independence. I imagine few educated Americans had these guys qualifications since the oldest American universities were divinity and old school liberal arts colleges.
Every normal man must be tempted, at times, to spit on his hands, hoist the black flag, and begin slitting throats.
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