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	Jeremiah Dixon - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Dixon was born in Cockfield, near Bishop Auckland, County Durham in northern England in 1733, the fifth of seven children, to George Dixon and Mary Hunter.
		Dixon and Mason signed an agreement in 1763 with the proprietors of Pennsylvania and Maryland, Thomas Penn and Frederick Calvert, seventh Baron Baltimore, to assist with resolving a boundary dispute between the two provinces.
		Jeremiah Dixon is one of the two titular characters of Thomas Pynchon's 1997 novel Mason and Dixon.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Jeremiah_Dixon (451 words)

	Jeremiah Dixon (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Jeremiah Dixon (July 27, 1733 - January 22, 1779) wasan English surveyor and astronomer who is perhaps best known for his work with Charles Mason, from 1763 to 1767, in determining what was later called the Mason-Dixon line.
		Dixon was born in Bishop Auckland, County Durham in northern England in 1733, the fifth of seven children, to George Dixon and MaryHunter.
		Dixon sailed to Norway in 1769 with William Bayly to observe anothertransit of Venus.
	www.therfcc.org /jeremiah-dixon-47987.html (393 words)

	Jeremiah Dixon
		Jeremiah Dixon (1733 - 1777) was an English surveyor, who worked on the Mason-Dixon line (1763 - 1767) in partnership with Charles Mason.
		According to one theory, Dixon's name gave rise to the nickname Dixie for the South of the United States of America.
		Little is known of his life, but he is reputed to have been born in a mining community in the north of England.
	www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/je/Jeremiah_Dixon.html (87 words)

	Mason & Dixon - Thomas Pynchon
		Dixon, Jeremiah 1733-1779, surveyor and astronomer, was born in Bishop Auckland, county Durham, 27 July 1733, the fifth of the seven children of George Dixon, a well-to-do Quaker coalmine owner, and his wife Mary Hunter of Newcastle.
		In August 1763 Mason and Dixon signed an agreement with Thomas Penn and Frederick Calvert, seventh Baron Baltimore [qq.v.], hereditary proprietors of the provinces of Pennsylvania and Maryland, to go to North America to help local surveyors define the disputed boundary between the two provinces.
		He should not be confused with his contemporary, Jeremiah Dixon, FRS (1726-1782) of Gledhow, near Leeds, son-in-law of John Smeaton [q.v.].
	www.hyperarts.com /pynchon/mason-dixon/extra/dixon_bio.html (469 words)

	Jeremiah Dixon -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Dixon was born in (Click link for more info and facts about Cockfield) Cockfield, near (Click link for more info and facts about Bishop Auckland) Bishop Auckland, (Click link for more info and facts about County Durham) County Durham in northern England in 1733, the fifth of seven children, to George Dixon and Mary Hunter.
		However, their passage to Sumatra was delayed, and they landed instead at the (A province of western South Africa) Cape of Good Hope where the (A surveying instrument for measuring horizontal and vertical angles, consisting of a small telescope mounted on a tripod) transit was observed on June 6, 1761.
		Dixon sailed to (A constitutional monarchy in northern Europe on the western side of the Scandinavian Peninsula; achieved independence from Sweden in 1905) Norway in 1769 with William Bayly to observe another transit of Venus.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/j/je/jeremiah_dixon.htm (423 words)

	Mason & Dixon - Thomas Pynchon
		Mason and Dixon's line was long famous as separating the slave from the free States.
		Mason and Dixon observed in Pennsylvania in 1766-7 the variation of gravity from Greenwich, part of a lunar eclipse, and some immersions of Jupiter's satellites (ib.
		Dixon was reportedly born in a coal mine, died at Durham in 1777.
	www.hyperarts.com /pynchon/mason-dixon/extra/mason_bio.html (451 words)

	Mason & Dixon, by Thomas Pynchon, Reading Group Guide, by Henry Holt and Company Publishers of Quality Books
		The Reverend Wicks Cherrycoke embarks on his tale of the famous surveyors Charles Mason and Jeremiah Dixon, who mapped the border between Pennsylvania and Maryland, for the after-dinner entertainment of the LeSpark family, including the twins Pitt and Pliny and their elder sister, Tenebrae.
		Mason and Dixon reunite and sail back to London, where Mason unsuccessfully attempts to reconcile with his two young sons and come to terms with both his father and the dead Rebekah.
		Dixon lives with his mistress and two illegitimate daughters, hallucinates a journey to the center of the earth, and eventually dies of gout.
	www.henryholt.com /readingguides/pynchon.htm (1781 words)

	Family Tree of Dixon of Astle Park, Cheshire, England, UK
		They state that Jeremiah Dixon was mayor of Leeds in 1784 and married Mary, the daughter of John Smeaton the engineer and designer of the Eddystone Lighthouse.
		Earwaker states that the wife of Jeremiah Dixon was Mary Wickham as does Burke's Landed Gentry of 1879.
		Henry Dixon, of Gledhow and Astle, Lieutenant in the 15th Hussars, JP, DL, born 19 November 1794, married on 24 December 1829 to Emma Matilda, daughter of Rev. E.
	www.thornber.net /cheshire/htmlfiles/dixon.html (547 words)

	Saving the Mason-Dixon Line (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Dixon was a surveyor from Cockfield in Durham County in England, and was educated by John Bird, a renowned maker of high precision astronomical instruments.
		In 1763, Mason and Dixon landed the monumental task of resolving an 80-year property dispute between the Calvert family of Maryland and Penn family of Pennsylvania, and were asked to lay stone markers indicating the boundary.
		Mason and Dixon used the stars to calculate this path through the wilderness and mark out the 233-mile-long boundary line between Pennsylvania and Maryland, and the 83 miles long north-south boundary between Maryland and Delaware; the effort took five years.
	news.nationalgeographic.com /news/2002/04/0410_020410_TVmasondixon.html (689 words)

	reVIEW --
		If history is Pynchon's subject, his objects are Charles Mason and Jeremiah Dixon, eponymous characters caught up in what appears to be an overdetermined machine of history, so ineffectual are their desires and plans.
		But for all their palpable characterization, even Mason and Dixon themselves sense that the machine of time, of the RS, of powers beyond their ability to know, much less control - that the web of influence itself is the main "character" of their paranoid plot: in short, that they are themselves secondary.
		Dixon, the night-inhabiting thrill seeker, is of course the one to volunteer to be connected to Dr. Franklin's electrical machinery, and very nearly gets himself killed, so powerful is the voltage; his next thought, however, is returning for further experiment.
	www.altx.com /ebr/reviews/rev8/r8hinds.htm (2077 words)

	Thomas Pynchon, Mason & Dixon
		His tale of Jeremiah Dixon and Charles Mason comes from the time the Rev. spent with the team the two men took with them as they clear-cut their way due west through unforgiving terrain.
		Through this fluctuating narrative voice, and the meta-story that it evokes, we see this tale as a story told, rather than a historical recreation, leaving Pynchon free to fill in with cunning detail the fiction of these two men and their eventual psychic influence on American social consciousness.
		Jeremiah Dixon, surveyor, observer, living in the now, and Charles Mason, astronomer, widower, a contemplative, introspective chronicler of the passing of events, become one facet of a subtext of polarization that explores the dichotomies of slave versus free, religious tolerance and moral superiority, between mania and melancholy, eastern and western philosophy, even lumberjack versus werebeaver.
	greenmanreview.com /book/book_pynchon_masondixon.html (766 words)

	Amazon.co.uk: Books: Mason and Dixon (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Jeremiah Dixon was not the only famous Dixon however and many of his successors have a prestigious heritage, for example Cleopatras Needle which now stands on the banks of the Thames in London, England was transported by boat in a watertight capsule by a Dixon, which was quite a feat in those days.
		Charles Mason and Jeremiah Dixon, two of the best wrought and most affecting characters in recent fiction, cross and re-cross the threshold separating solipsism and encounter known as friendship.
		Mason and Dixon learned most of what they needed to understand---about the use of science, the slavery of commerce, and the boundaries of freedom-- too late for the world they were cutting into.
	www.amazon.co.uk /exec/obidos/ASIN/022405001X (1613 words)

	Jeremiah Dixon (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Dixon fue llevado en el obispo Auckland, condado Durham en Inglaterra norteña en 1733, el fifth de siete niños, a George Dixon y al cazador de Maria.
		Dixon hizo interesado en astronomía y matemáticas durante su educación en el castillo de Barnard; temprano en vida él hizo a conocidos con el matemático Guillermo Emerson, y al pájaro de Juan de los astrónomos y a Thomas Wright.
		Dixon volvió al cabo de nuevo con Nevil Maskelyne al trabajo sobre experimentos con gravedad.
	www.yotor.net /wiki/es/je/Jeremiah%20Dixon.htm (414 words)

	Encyclopedia: Jeremiah Dixon
		The Mason-Dixon Line Literally, the Mason-Dixon Line (or Mason and Dixons Line) demarcated state boundaries between the Province of Pennsylvania, the Province of Maryland, Delaware Colony and parts of Colony and Old Dominion of Virginia in colonial North America and, thus, between their successor states in the...
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	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Jeremiah-Dixon (1513 words)

	mdhs.org > Your Maryland
		Mason and Dixon's boundaries were formally ratified on November 9, 1768, and the two surveyors returned to England.
		The Missouri Compromise of 1820 established a boundary between slave and free states that began in the east along the Mason Dixon line and extended westward at 36°30' Latitude, with the exception of Missouri.
		Charles Mason and Jeremiah Dixon could hardly have imagined the currency their name would have in the centuries since their work was completed.
	www.mdhs.org /radio/md_oct3.html (586 words)

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		Dixon’s most chilling vision was of a quasi-biblical Armageddon slated to start with Russian nukes raining down on America’s coastal cities in 1999.
		Dixon came to public notice most saliently with her prediction of the death of President Kennedy, publicized in that notator for the gullible, Parade magazine.
		In 1971 Dixon predicted that “President Nixon will long be remembered for his courage in removing the dollar from the greedy gold manipulators,” hardly his legacy today.
	www.goodbyemag.com /jan97/dixon.html (663 words)

	Enterzone 11: Linear Pynchon
		Even the story of Mason and Dixon's westward movement along their dividing line often turns back on itself as the expedition must return east to double check their demarcations, avoid natural obstacles, prepare for extremes of weather, or avoid the threat presented by the natives in the open wilderness.
		Although there is a central plot and a narrative line, it is intentionally distorted to reflect the true movement the expedition followed and to reinforce the idea that movement, whether physical, intellectual, or spiritual, is seldom monolithic or unidirectional.
		The stars Mason uses for guidance are sometimes blocked by clouds, and Dixon's plumb line and compass needle are sometimes rendered useless by the ore in surrounding mountains.
	ezone.org /ez/e11/articles/pelovitz/masondixon.html (1822 words)

	Mason - Dixon marker engraved with name of Bob Gauss, Sr. Staff Report : Christine O'Connor
		Side-by-side, the broken remnant of Mason and Dixon's original 1767 stone (left), and new 525-pound replacement stone.
		The original boundary marker known as "Crownstone Mile 75" was set in October, 1767, by Charles Mason and Jeremiah Dixon of the British Royal Observatory.
		The location of Crownstone Mile 75 is in a farm field in Harney, MD. Its replacement will be transported through the field in a horse-drawn wagon to the exact spot where Mason and Dixon sited the original stone.
	www.emmitsburgdispatch.com /2002/October/masondixon.shtml (320 words)

	1998 Pulitzer Prizes-CRITICISM, Works
		The frame on which these ideas are threaded is the real-life story of Charles Mason (1728-1786) and Jeremiah Dixon (1733-1779), the British surveyors who mapped out the boundary line between Pennsylvania and Maryland in pre-Revolutionary America, the line that would come to be known as the Mason-Dixon line, dividing the North from the South.
		Mason and Dixon's first assignment together is a commission from the Royal Society of Astronomers to measure celestial phenomena from the vantage point of the Cape of Good Hope in Africa, an assignment used by Mr.
		In the course of their ''Ragtime''-esque peregrinations, Mason and Dixon meet George Washington (who, for some reason, is fond of talking in Yiddish); Thomas Jefferson (who supposedly lifts from Dixon the phrase ''the pursuit of Happiness'') and Benjamin Franklin (who comes across as a madcap skirt-chaser).
	www.pulitzer.org /year/1998/criticism/works/6.html (1027 words)

	The Mason-Dixon Line
		Charles Mason and Jeremiah Dixon worked for 58 months in plotting much of the line between this state and Delaware, Maryland, and Virginia (which included what is today West Virginia).
		Mason and Dixon arrived Nov. 15, 1763, and by the time the line was accepted by Virginia, the task had consumed 23 years.
		The Pennsylvania members proposed for the western boundary a line to be drawn north from the end of Mason and Dixon's line, parallel to the winding eastern Delaware River border.
	www.gamber.net /gamber/mason-dx.htm (1070 words)

	Mason-Dixon Line to Receive New Stone
		On October 19 the new stone will be brought up on a period-authentic 1760s horse-drawn wagon, hoisted into position with a wooden block and tackle on a timber tripod, then lowered onto its carefully-surveyed correct boundary spot (beneath which a long-buried fragment of Mason and Dixon's original stone was found by local surveyors in August).
		Charles Mason was a world-class astronomer and geodesist, Jeremiah Dixon a superb English surveyor.
		Six years later Mason and Dixon completed it - one of the most remarkable boundary surveys ever conducted on earth.
	www.emmitsburg.net /archive_list/articles/ce/misc/2004/mason_dixon.htm (521 words)

	eye - BOOKS - 05.15.97
		Charles Mason and Jeremiah Dixon, astronomer and surveyor, are two 18th-century Englishmen in the service of a colonial power whose strength resides in knowledge and the application of science.
		The narrator of Mason & Dixon is the Reverend Wicks Cherrycoke, the well traveled relative of a comfortably wealthy Philadelphia family who is welcome to stay so long as he can keep the younger members of the LeSpark clan diverted.
		Pynchon is drawn to metaphors like this, equating human behavior or emotions to mathematical relationships, but in a sense that draws out either their apparent inevitability, or our frail hope that we might understand the human toll of our actions as easily as we look up a telephone number.
	www.eye.net /eye/issue/issue_05.15.97/plus/books.html (849 words)

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