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	Africa
		Land boundary and claims disputes with Libya were unresolved as of late 2002.
		The DROC and Zambia dispute the border to the east of Lake Mweru.
		On the NE the boundary is set by the Senegal River, and on the E by the Falémé River.
	www.nationsencyclopedia.com /Africa (5449 words)

	Asia and Oceania
		Kyrgyzstan shares boundaries with Kazakhstan on the N, China on the E, Tajikistan on the S, Uzbekistan on the W. The country's boundary length totals 3,878 km (2,410 mi), and its capital city, Bishkek is located in the north central part of the country.
		Pakistan is bordered on the NE by China, on the E by Jammu and Kashmir to the Karakoram Pass, on the E and SE by India, on the S by the Arabian Sea, on the SW by Iran, and on the W and NW by Afghanistan.
		Turkmenistan shares boundaries with Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan on the N, Afghanistan on the SE, Iran on the SW, and the Caspian Sea on the W. Turkmenistan's boundary length totals 5,504 km (3,420 mi), of which 1,768 km (1,099 mi) is shoreline along the Caspian Sea.
	www.nationsencyclopedia.com /Asia-and-Oceania (6262 words)

	Northeast Boundary Dispute: Free Encyclopedia Articles at Questia.com Online Library
		The treaty of 1783 ending the American Revolution had described the northeastern boundary of the United States as running due north from the source of the St. Croix River to the highlands dividing the St. Lawrence River tributaries and the Atlantic Ocean, and along those highlands to the northwesternmost head of the Connecticut River.
		The long-standing controversy was ended with the Webster-Ashburton Treaty (1842), which set the boundary practically according to the line proposed by the king of the Netherlands, with the United States receiving the larger portion of the disputed area.
		NORTHEAST BOUNDARY DISPUTE controversy...described the northeastern boundary of the United...Connecticut River.
	www.questia.com /library/encyclopedia/101261659 (1710 words)

	Webster-Ashburton Treaty - Encyclopedia.com
		The treaty settled the Northeast Boundary Dispute, which had caused serious conflicts, such as the Aroostook War.
		Some disputes between the United States and Britain, notably the one concerning the Oregon boundary, were ignored.
		The boundary dispute was later settled by the Webster-Ashburton Treaty of 1842.
	www.encyclopedia.com /doc/1E1-WebsterA.html (947 words)

	Northeast Boundary Dispute - Search Results - MSN Encarta
		Northeast Boundary Dispute, long-standing dispute between the United States and Great Britain concerning the northeastern boundary line with eastern...
		A third source of trouble with Great Britain was a boundary dispute between Maine and New Brunswick in the valley of the Aroostook River.
		boundary with India in dispute; disputed sections of the boundary with Russia remain to be settled...
	encarta.msn.com /Northeast_Boundary_Dispute.html (277 words)

	Welcome to New Brunswick, Canada
		To the south, the narrow Isthmus of Chignecto connects it to peninsular Nova Scotia, most of which is separated from the mainland by the Bay of Fundy; on its west, the province borders the American state of Maine.
		The boundary with the U.S. was settled during the Aroostook War largely through the efforts of businessman and political activist John Baker.
		The boundary dispute, known as the Aroostook War, was settled in 1842.
	www.hometowncanada.com /nb (2724 words)

	Webster-Ashburton Treaty. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05
		The treaty settled the Northeast Boundary Dispute, which had caused serious conflicts, such as the Aroostook War.
		Over 7,000 sq mi (18,100 sq km) of the disputed area, including the Aroostook valley, were given to the United States, and several waterways, including the St. Johns River, were opened to free navigation by both countries.
		Some disputes between the United States and Britain, notably the one concerning the Oregon boundary, were ignored.
	www.bartleby.com /65/we/WebsterA.html (219 words)

	Ontario - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		the thinly populated Canadian Shield in the northwestern and central portions which covers over half the land area in the province, though mostly infertile land it is rich in minerals and studded with lakes and rivers; sub-regions are Northwestern Ontario and Northeastern Ontario.
		The northern and western boundaries of Ontario were in dispute after Confederation.
		Ontario's right to Northwestern Ontario was determined by the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council in 1884 and confirmed by the Canada (Ontario Boundary) Act, 1889 of the Parliament of the United Kingdom.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Ontario (4041 words)

	Prologue - Prologue: Selected Articles
		The dispute over property and slaves lost during the war and the issue of Great Britain's failure to honor the 1783 and 1794 treaties surfaced in the Treaty of Ghent on December 24, 1814.
		Discussion of the protection and maintenance of slavery emerged early in the 1787 Constitutional Convention, and slavery became one of the central points of disagreement.
		The 1842 treaty settled the long-standing northeastern boundary dispute between the United States and Canada.
	www.archives.gov /publications/prologue/2000/winter/hydra-slave-trade-documentation-1.html (4421 words)

	Webster Ashburton Treaty: Free Encyclopedia Articles at Questia.com Online Library
		Criminal Boundaries: The Frontier and the Contours of Upper Canadian Justice, 1792-1840
		...two boundary disputes with the United States, the Northeast Boundary Dispute by the Webster-Ashburton Treaty (1842), and the Oregon controversy by the treaty of 1846.
		The boundary was later settled by the Webster-Ashburton Treaty (1842).
	www.questia.com /library/encyclopedia/101277660 (1108 words)

	Caribbean Guides
		Belize is an independent state in northeastern Central America, bounded on the north and northwest by Mexico, on the east by the Caribbean Sea, and on the south and west by Guatemala.
		The principal streams are the Belize River; the Río Azul, which forms much of the boundary with Mexico; and the Sarstún River, which forms the southwestern boundary with Guatemala.
		The PUP won a landslide victory in the August 1998 national election, and PUP leader Said Musa was sworn in as prime minister.
	www.caribbeanguides.net /belize.htm (729 words)

	1831 Report of Deane and Kavanagh on the Madawaska Settlement
		As time went on the solution of the boundary problem seemed to depend more on the question of occupation and priority of jurisdiction than upon a literal construction of the terms of the treaty of 1783.
		In the early part of the year 1831, the award of the King of the Netherlands was received [he had been commissioned as an arbitrator to decide where the border between the US and the British territories actually ran].
		He was one of the members of the joint commission on the northeastern boundary in 1842.
	www.upperstjohn.com /aroostook/deane-kavanagh.htm (1966 words)

	Geography
		The White Mountains range in New Hampshire spans the north-central portion of the state, with Mount Washington being the tallest in the northeastern U.S., and other mountains like Mount Madison and Mount Adams surrounding it.
		With hurricane-force winds every third day on the average, over 100 recorded deaths among visitors, and conspicuous krummholz (dwarf, matted trees much like a carpet of bonsai trees), the upper reaches of Mount Washington claim the title of having the "worst weather on earth.".
		The state has an ongoing boundary dispute with Maine in the area of Portsmouth Harbor, with New Hampshire claiming dominion over several islands (now known as Seavey Island) that include the Portsmouth Naval Shipyard as well as to the Maine towns of Kittery and Berwick.
	www.visitnh.gov /about-new-hampshire/geography.aspx (829 words)

	Northeast Boundary Dispute. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05
		The treaty of 1783 ending the American Revolution had described the northeastern boundary of the United States as running due north from the source of the St. Croix River to the highlands dividing the St. Lawrence River tributaries and the Atlantic Ocean, and along those highlands to the northwesternmost head of the Connecticut River.
		In 1839 the dispute led to the so-called Aroostook War, a conflict between inhabitants of New Brunswick and Maine, which produced strained relations between the United States and Great Britain.
		The long-standing controversy was ended with the Webster-Ashburton Treaty (1842), which set the boundary practically according to the line proposed by the king of the Netherlands, with the United States receiving the larger portion of the disputed area.
	www.bartelby.com /65/ne/NEBoundD.html (267 words)

	Vermont (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Vermont is known for its brief mud season in spring followed by a cool summer and a colorful autumn, and particularly for its cold winters.
		The northern part of the state, including the rural northeastern section (dubbed the "Northeast Kingdom") is known for exceptionally cold winters, often averaging more than ten degrees (F) colder than the southern areas of the state.
		In 1770, Ethan Allen—along with his brothers Ira and Levi, as well as Seth Warner—recruited an informal militia, the Green Mountain Boys, to protect the interests of the original New Hampshire settlers against the new migrants from New York.
	vermont.iqnaut.net (4221 words)

	Maine vertical sections. / Greenleaf, Moses, 1777-1834 / 1829
		Northern boundary along the highlands dividing the waters of the St. Lawrence from those of the Atlantic -- no. 2.
		From the northwest boundary nearly east to the sources of the St. Croix.
		The first four maps relate to the Northeastern Boundary dispute and are the only maps published in Maine that dealt with the boundary question.
	www.davidrumsey.com /maps880038-24206.html (549 words)

	Intel settles legal dispute in China (AP)
		BEIJING, China - Intel Corp., the world's largest chip maker, said Monday it has settled a copyright infringement dispute with a Chinese maker of telecommunications and network equipment.
		Intel spokesman Chuck Mulloy said Monday it no longer made strategic sense to pursue the litigation, and the two companies brokered a licensing deal over the disputed technology.
		Intel has committed to investing $4 billion in China by 2010, including a $2.5 billion chip factory in the northeastern city of Dalian that will be used to make chip sets, which shuttle data from the microprocessor to other system components.
	semiconductor_industry.fresh-hot-news.net /115168.html (568 words)

	Channing's Short History of the United States
		Ever since the Treaty of Peace of 1783, there had been a dispute over the northeastern boundary of Maine.
		If the boundary had been run according to the plain meaning of the Treaty of Peace, the people of Upper Canada would have found it almost impossible to reach New Brunswick or Nova Scotia in winter.
		At that time of the year the St. Lawrence is frozen over, and the true northern boundary of Maine ran so near to the St. Lawrence that it was difficult to build a road which would be wholly in British territory.
	www.americanhistory.com /history/ShortHistory/shorthistory10.html (5093 words)

	History of Nova Scotia, Before Dec 1699
		It was a prime factor in the famous northeastern boundary controversy which culminated in the equally famous Webster-Ashburton Treaty between the United States and Great Britain in 1842.
		The western boundary of this grant was to follow the River St. Croix from its mouth to its most westerly source, and thence by a line running northward until it intersected a tributary of the St. Lawrence.
		This dispute was settled after the conquest of Canada, when the British government confirmed the original line of the Alexander grant as the boundary between the rival provinces.
	www.littletechshoppe.com /ns1625/nshist01.html (11402 words)

	Manipur: The Land of Jewels
		It is the sheer tranquility enveloping it, interrupted only by a soft breeze that sets it apart from the other northeastern states, and makes it the ideal getaway.
		In 1826, Manipur was brought into India by the treaty of Yandavo by Raja Jai Singh with the British at the end of the Indo-Burmese war.
		With the intervention of the British the dispute was settled.
	manipurinfo.tripod.com (6317 words)

	Andrew Bonthius \| The Patriot War of 1837–1838: Locofocoism With a Gun? \| Labour/Le Travail, 52 \| The History ...
		Combined with other simmering border disputes in the northeast, periodic Patriot filibustering posed the question of war between the US and Britain, ultimately compelling the two nations to coordinate diplomatic and military efforts to suppress the movement.
		Although both the aggregate number of men and distribution of Canadians and Americans on the island are in dispute, it is most likely that from the very beginning of the occupation the vast majority of weapons and men came from the US.
		The extant historiography, which establishes a great degree of cultural, socio-economic interpenetration between UC and the Great Lakes states, as represented by three generations of Nortons, is not disputed by scholars who have studied this region, and yet remains absent from most treatments of US Patriot activities.
	www.historycooperative.org /journals/llt/52/bonthius.html (13327 words)

	Webster-Ashburton Treaty — Infoplease.com
		Northeast Boundary Dispute - Northeast Boundary Dispute Northeast Boundary Dispute, controversy between the United States and...
		In 1837 a group of men led by William Lyon Mackenzie rebelled in...
		Related content from HighBeam Research on: Webster-Ashburton Treaty
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	National Governors Association
		He was elected to the governor's office in 1826, and won reelection in 1827 and 1828.
		During his tenure, Augusta was chosen as the site for the state capitol, educational improvements were endorsed, a charter for the new town of Lincoln was authorized, and the state's northeastern boundary dispute continued to be problematic.
		Before his term was completed, Governor Enoch Lincoln passed away.
	www.nga.org /portal/site/nga/menuitem.29fab9fb4add37305ddcbeeb501010a0/?vgnextoid=39bd224971c81010VgnVCM1000001a01010aRCRD&vgnextchannel=e449a0ca9e3f1010VgnVCM1000001a01010aRCRD (236 words)

	Top20NewMexico.com - Your Top20 Guide to New Mexico!
		The thorough development of ranching and some farming in the 1700s laid the foundations for the state's still-flourishing Hispanic culture.
		Napoleon Bonaparte of France sold the vast Louisiana Purchase, which extended into the northeastern corner of New Mexico, to the United States in 1803.
		The western border with Arizona runs along 109 Â°W. The 37 Â°N parallel forms the northern boundary with Colorado.
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	The World Factbook 2004 -- Faroe Islands
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		archipelago of 17 inhabited islands and one uninhabited island, and a few uninhabited islets; strategically located along important sea lanes in northeastern Atlantic; precipitous terrain limits habitation to small coastal lowlands
		Faroese are considering proposals for full independence; Denmark dispute with Iceland over the Faroe Islands fisheries median line boundary of 200 nm; Denmark disputes with Iceland, the UK, and Ireland the Faroe Islands claim extending its continental shelf boundary beyond 200 nm
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