Should the US hand over Minnesota's Northwest Angle to Canada?
It's a geographic curiosity - a bit of US land at the top edge of Minnesota, disconnected from the rest of the state. The Northwest Angle is known to local residents, people who love to fish - the region is famous for its walleye - and geography buffs. It is accessible by land only through the Canadian province.
Now, someone has anonymously launched a petition urging the US to hand the land over to its northern neighbours. "Make America great by correcting this critical survey error," states the petition posted on 30 December on the White House "We the People" site, which allows citizens to petition Congress on issues that matter to them. The petition is titled "Give Canada back the Northwest Angle located in Manitoba".
The nub of Minnesota state is roughly 123 square miles (318 square km) and is farther north than any other part of the contiguous United States. Living above the 49th parallel, Angleites - as local residents are known - are the northernmost American citizens, barring Alaskans. It can be reached by driving through Canada or by boat across the Lake of the Woods.
(Score: 3, Funny) by aristarchus on Saturday January 05 2019, @12:07AM (2 children)
Who is this AC who fails to append a terminal sigma to my name? Concerning, as the kids say these days.
And didn't we just have a political submission a day or so ago? Maybe we are having too many political discussions on SN, and not enough "X number of things you need to know about X" articles.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday January 05 2019, @03:21AM
Twas not I, Asscratchus. Perhaps you need a kill -9 rather than a terminal sigma?
(Score: 5, Funny) by RamiK on Saturday January 05 2019, @03:33AM
Maybe they declined Ἀρίσταρχος ὁ Σάμιος with dative / genitive / koine / modern as τον Αρίσταρχο το Σάμιο or through the Latin? You only have yourself to blame for this: If you only taught Anon's teacher's teacher's teacher's teacher's teacher's teacher's teacher's teacher's teacher's teacher's properly this would never had happened.
Personally I avoid declining borrowed nouns after being thoroughly traumatized in my Latin and Greek studies over all the conflicting inflections. Data forever!
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