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Useless Geography fact of the day
Posted on 5/31/23 at 12:36 pm
Posted on 5/31/23 at 12:36 pm
For the people like me with a map in their office and not much going on at work.
Did you know mainland Louisiana is closer to Oklahoma (~50 miles as the crow flies) than it is to Alabama (~70 miles)?
Unless you include Breton Wildlife Refuge in as Louisiana (~40 miles from Alabama) even though the islands are about the same distance from LA in the Gulf as they are from AL.
Did you know mainland Louisiana is closer to Oklahoma (~50 miles as the crow flies) than it is to Alabama (~70 miles)?
Unless you include Breton Wildlife Refuge in as Louisiana (~40 miles from Alabama) even though the islands are about the same distance from LA in the Gulf as they are from AL.
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Posted on 5/31/23 at 12:40 pm to crotiger0307
Posted on 5/31/23 at 12:42 pm to crotiger0307
Cool. Did you also know, despite the claim by Leadbelly, that it's geographically impossible to be down in Louisiana and be just about a mile from Texarkana.
Posted on 5/31/23 at 12:42 pm to crotiger0307
OK also touches 6 states
Posted on 5/31/23 at 12:43 pm to crotiger0307
That is pretty interesting. 
Posted on 5/31/23 at 12:44 pm to OU Guy
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OK also touches 6 states
Show me on the map where he touched you
Posted on 5/31/23 at 12:45 pm to crotiger0307
The true source of the Mississippi River is a swamp in northern Minnesota. In the 1930s the Civilian Conservation Corps bulldozed a channel from Lake Itasca, making it the source and a tourist attraction.
Posted on 5/31/23 at 12:45 pm to Teufelhunden
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Did you also know, despite the claim by Leadbelly, that it's geographically impossible to be down in Louisiana and be just about a mile from Texarkana.
That one has crossed my mind before
Posted on 5/31/23 at 12:46 pm to upgrade
quote:
Did you also know, despite the claim by Leadbelly, that it's geographically impossible to be down in Louisiana and be just about a mile from Texarkana.
That one has crossed my mind before
did you know there really is a China Grove in Texas?? really makes you think
Posted on 5/31/23 at 12:48 pm to 777Tiger
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did you know there really is a China Grove in Texas??
Doobie Brothers
Posted on 5/31/23 at 12:48 pm to crotiger0307
You measuring from the balls or where?
Posted on 5/31/23 at 12:49 pm to 777Tiger
Of course we all know it's geographically impossible to head west from the Cumberland Gap to Johnson City Tennessee.
Posted on 5/31/23 at 12:50 pm to crotiger0307
Russia borders both North Korea and Norway
Posted on 5/31/23 at 12:50 pm to OU Guy
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Doobie Brothers
Tom Johnston didn't know there was such a town until a cabbie in TX asked him why he wrote about China Grove
Posted on 5/31/23 at 12:52 pm to crotiger0307
Why would you not include the Chandeleur Islands. La Department of Wildlife sure as hell considers that Louisiana (lol). $100+ a year for us out of state anglers to fish at Freemason and Curlew.
Its about 35 miles from Chandeleur to Dauphin Island.
Its about 35 miles from Chandeleur to Dauphin Island.
Posted on 5/31/23 at 12:54 pm to 777Tiger
quote:I thought they were singing, "China Blows".
China Grove
Posted on 5/31/23 at 12:55 pm to Kcrad
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I thought they were singing, "China Blows".
was that the teacher's name?
Posted on 5/31/23 at 12:55 pm to Jim Rockford
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Of course we all know it's geographically impossible to head west from the Cumberland Gap to Johnson City Tennessee.
It can be done.
You just have to go the long way.
Posted on 5/31/23 at 12:57 pm to Jim Rockford
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The true source of the Mississippi River is a swamp in northern Minnesota. In the 1930s the Civilian Conservation Corps bulldozed a channel from Lake Itasca, making it the source and a tourist attraction.
Lake Itasca was already identified as a source of the MS a hundred years before that. There are arguments another lake, which also is fed by other streams, are the true source, but I see nothing that Itasca was "created" by man made intervention to be the source. They did make it more appealing.
This post was edited on 5/31/23 at 12:58 pm
Posted on 5/31/23 at 12:59 pm to 777Tiger
Maybe the preacher knows?
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