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  1. In the USA, the boundary line between
  2. Maryland and Pennsylvania (latitude 39
  3. degrees 43' 26.3" N), named after Charles
  4. Mason (1730-87) and Jeremiah Dixon (died
  5. 1777), English astronomers and surveyors who
  6. surveyed it 1763-67. It was popularly seen as
  7. dividing the North from the South.
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