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51Mason and Dixon Line — The boundary line between Pennsylvania on the north and Maryland on the south, celebrated before the extinction of slavery as the line of demarcation between the slave and the free states. It was run by Charles Mason and Jeremiah Dixon,… …
52Mason and Dixon Line — The boundary line between Pennsylvania on the north and Maryland on the south, celebrated before the extinction of slavery as the line of demarcation between the slave and the free states. It was run by Charles Mason and Jeremiah Dixon,… …
53Mason-Dixon line — [mā′sən dik′sən] [after C. Mason & J. Dixon, who surveyed it, 1763 67] boundary line between Pa. & Md., regarded, before the Civil War, as separating the free states from the slave states or, now, the North from the South: also Mason and Dixon s… …
54Service line — Service Serv ice, n. [OE. servise, OF. servise, service, F. service, from L. servitium. See {Serve}.] 1. The act of serving; the occupation of a servant; the performance of labor for the benefit of another, or at another s command; attendance of… …
55A-A line — The Arkhangelsk Astrakhan line or A A line was the proposed eastern border of the Nazi German empire. Operation Barbarossa, Germany s invasion of the Soviet Union, failed to secure either of the two Russian cities. Adolf Hitler and other Nazi… …
56The White slave — This antebellum melodrama written in seven tableaux by Bartley Campbell opened on 3 April 1882 for 40 performances at Haverly s Theatre. The play, which became Campbell s greatest success, featured Georgia Cayvan as Lisa, the mixed race… …
57Mason-Dixon Line — 1779, named for Charles Mason and Jeremiah Dixon, English astronomers who surveyed (1763 7) the disputed boundary between the colonial holdings of the Penns (Pennsylvania) and the Calverts (Maryland). It became the technical boundary between free …
58Mason-Dixon Line — /meɪsən ˈdɪksən laɪn/ (say maysuhn diksuhn luyn) noun the boundary between Pennsylvania and Maryland, partly surveyed by Charles Mason and Jeremiah Dixon between 1763 and 1767, popularly considered before the abolition of slavery as a line of… …
59Mason-Dixon Line — noun a) The boundary line between Pennsylvania and Maryland, as run before the Revolution (1764 1767) by two English astronomers named Charles Mason and Jeremiah Dixon. b) The boundary between the free and slave states at the time of the American …
60Ma|son-Dix|on line — «MAY suhn DIHK suhn», the boundary between Pennsylvania and Maryland, formerly separating the free states of the North from the slave states of the South. It was surveyed (1763 and 1767) by Charles Mason and Jeremiah Dixon …
