New map outlines the river basins of the US
A new map has been released that clearly outlines every river basin within the continental United States.
Trust me, click on the link. It is definitely worth looking at.
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A new map has been released that clearly outlines every river basin within the continental United States.
Trust me, click on the link. It is definitely worth looking at.
Readers!
My annual February birthday fund-raising drive for Behind the Black is now over. Thank you to everyone who donated or subscribed. While not a record-setter, the donations were more than sufficient and slightly above average.
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For those readers who like my work here at Behind the Black and haven't contributed so far, please consider donating or subscribing. My analysis of space, politics, and culture, taken from the perspective of an historian, is almost always on the money and ahead of the game. For example, in 2020 I correctly predicted that the COVID panic was unnecessary, that the virus was apparently simply a variation of the flu, that masks were not simply pointless but if worn incorrectly were a health threat, that the lockdowns were a disaster and did nothing to stop the spread of COVID. Every one of those 2020 conclusions has turned out right.
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I’m not a river person. People who grew up next to a river on the country side have the river as phenomena in their memory and traditions. When I worked in a small African country there was a geological exhibition and a geologist explained the many colored rivers of a map on the wall:
“- The red rivers are where gold has been found. The blue rivers are where diamonds have been found.”
I had to ask:
“- What are the green rivers?”
“- Oh, that’s where we’ve found both gold AND diamonds!”
This is a stunning image and informative. Thank you Bob!
This is not meant to be confrontational or “troll-y”, but I do not understand the point of Localfluff’s post. Could you clarify?
Kind of looks like doodle art.
Notice the chunk of the Louisiana purchase the Canadians stole from us?
PeterF,
I like the real story much better. Most of the US-Canadian border is the only border that is agreed to by a handshake. As the two countries were reaching westward and the border as defined by the Great Lakes came to an end, the two countries got together to figure out where each one ended and the other began. After some discussion, they decided upon the 49th parallel — and, yes, some of the Louisiana Purchase went to Canada.
However, there were a few people just north of the Minnesota-Canadian border who insisted that they were US citizens, so the border was modified to include them, which is why Minnesota has a small portion that juts up into Canada.
Canada wanted a port on the Pacific, so Alaska is not a contiguous state with the lower 48. When the US bought Alaska from the Russian government, the Russians claimed the coastal territory from Alaska all the way down to their colony of Fort Ross, California.
Except for treaties after the Revolutionary War and the War of 1812, most of the Candaian-US border was established through peaceful discussions and treaties that merely resolved confusion over where one territory ended and another began.
It’s a really nice story. I once had a history teacher who taught history as a series of stories (sometimes with class participation, sometimes with props, but always with sound effects), and those are the most memorable history lessons I have ever had.