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The US-Canada Border Is 5,500 Miles of Pure Nonsense

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What is missing from a picture of brightness? →Follow rotating hands, short tones and holographic exposures to separate three questions: what is in a wave, what the observation window permits, and what the instrument actually records.This video helps answer · How does a treaty line become a row of markers?

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Grey follows the US–Canada boundary from treaty language to surveyed markers. A line that looks straight at map scale had to be realized by people working in particular terrain.

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the treaties establishing the line
The US-Canada Border Is 5,500 Miles of Pure Nonsense · ▶ 0:48–0:52
about 900 markers along this section of the border
The US-Canada Border Is 5,500 Miles of Pure Nonsense · ▶ 1:39–1:43

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