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  2. Mason–Dixon line - Wikipedia

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    Dan Seals sang "Mason Dixon line" and the song symbolically references the line. [52] GZA references the "Mason-Dixon Line" in the closing words of his feature verse on Raekwon's song "Guillotine (Swords)" from his debut 1995 album Only Built 4 Cuban Linx. [53] Tom Lehrer references the Mason–Dixon line in his song "I Wanna Go Back to Dixie ...

  3. Mason & Dixon - Wikipedia

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    Mason & Dixon is a postmodernist novel by the American author Thomas Pynchon, published in 1997.It presents a fictionalized account of the collaboration between Charles Mason and Jeremiah Dixon in their astronomical and surveying exploits in the Dutch Cape Colony, Saint Helena, Great Britain and along the Mason-Dixon line in British North America on the eve of the Revolutionary War in the ...

  4. Volunteers are Racing to Save the Crumbling Mason-Dixon Line

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    On the border between Maryland and Pennsylvania, a team of volunteer surveyors work diligently to preserve both the markers and the history of the Mason-Dixon Line.

  5. Charles Mason - Wikipedia

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    Charles Mason (25 April 1728 [1] – 25 October 1786) was a British-American astronomer who made significant contributions to 18th-century science and American history, particularly through his survey with Jeremiah Dixon of the Mason–Dixon line, which came to mark the border between Maryland and Pennsylvania (1764–1768). The border between ...

  6. Twelve-Mile Circle - Wikipedia

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    The Twelve-Mile Circle Diagram of the Twelve-Mile Circle, the Mason-Dixon Line, and The Wedge. The diagram shows the survey lines involved in the disputes, not current borders. The Twelve-Mile Circle is an approximately circular arc that forms most of the boundary between Delaware and Pennsylvania. It is a combination of different circular arcs ...

  7. South to America - Wikipedia

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    South to America: A Journey Below the Mason-Dixon to Understand the Soul of a Nation is a 2022 book by scholar Imani Perry, published by Harper Collins. The book received the 2022 National Book Award for Nonfiction .

  8. Jeremiah Dixon - Wikipedia

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    Dixon's name may be the origin for the nickname Dixie used in reference to the Southern United States [14]. Jeremiah Dixon is one of the two title characters of Thomas Pynchon's 1997 novel Mason & Dixon. The song Sailing to Philadelphia from Mark Knopfler's album of the same name, also refers to Mason and Dixon, and was inspired by Pynchon's book.

  9. Mason Dixon - Wikipedia

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    Mason & Dixon, the 1997 novel by Thomas Pynchon featuring the surveyors as characters; Mason and Dixon, Pennsylvania, an unincorporated community; Mason-Dixon Trail, hiking trail along the line; Mason-Dixon Polling & Research Inc., an independent polling firm; Mason Dixon (band), a country music band from the 1980s