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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 ...
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 .
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 ...
Ten minutes away, at Mason-Dixon Farms on Mason-Dixon Road, a stone sits within smelling distance of a crowded corral of cows. The last stone we visit lies beside a bunch of black-eyed Susan in a ...
This line was drawn in 1493 after Christopher Columbus returned from his maiden voyage to the Americas. The Mason–Dixon line (or "Mason and Dixon's Line") is a demarcation line between four U.S. states, forming part of the borders of Pennsylvania, Maryland, Delaware, and West Virginia (then part of Virginia).
In 1750, the Chancery Court upheld the validity of the 1732 agreement, which became the basis on which Charles Mason and Jeremiah Dixon surveyed the permanent boundary (the Mason–Dixon line) between Pennsylvania and Maryland in 1767. Today the conflict area is part of York County, Pennsylvania.
Mason & Dixon (1997) is a fictionalized account of the lives of Charles Mason and Jeremiah Dixon, the historical surveyors of the Mason–Dixon line. The meticulously researched novel is a sprawling postmodernist saga recounting the lives and careers of the English astronomer Charles Mason and his partner, the surveyor Jeremiah Dixon , the ...
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.