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		<title>By: Chuck</title>
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		<description>I don&#039;t see it on the map.  Maybe it was on the wrapper.  Right next to the free license for unrestricted exploitation of the mineral rights.</description>
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		<description>Where&#039;s the sign on the map that says come and pillage our native way of life, make us submit to a religion that isn&#039;t ours and bring disease to our people?</description>
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		<description>Not sure.  Maybe we should ask the black amazonian women.</description>
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		<description>Isn&#039;t that pronounced Kal-ee-forn-ee-a?</description>
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		<p>Nice piece on <a target="_blank" href="http://strangemaps.wordpress.com/2007/02/06/71-the-island-of-california/" title="California as an island">ancient California at Strange Maps</a>.</p>


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		<p>Isn&#8217;t that pronounced Kal-ee-forn-ee-a?</p>

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		<p>Not sure.  Maybe we should ask the black amazonian women.</p>

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		<p>Where&#8217;s the sign on the map that says come and pillage our native way of life, make us submit to a religion that isn&#8217;t ours and bring disease to our people?</p>

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		<p>I don&#8217;t see it on the map.  Maybe it was on the wrapper.  Right next to the free license for unrestricted exploitation of the mineral rights.</p>

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