• anonochronomus [comrade/them, she/her]@hexbear.net
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    8 months ago

    Well, the Mason Dixon line was the first arbitrary, straight line on a map border in history. Charles Mason and Jeremiah Dixon plotted the border between Pennsylvania and Maryland using astrological navigation techniques, in the field, and had a crew of lumber jacks with them to physically cut the border through the wilderness.