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Well I certainly fell down the Wikipedia rabbit hole. That article lead me to the article on the strait named after him, through which I discovered that we (the
by kibibyte 8y ago
Well I certainly fell down the Wikipedia rabbit hole. That article lead me to the article on the strait named after him, through which I discovered that we (the US) and Canada still have active border disputes. -- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_areas_disputed_by_Canada_and_the_United_States https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_areas_disputed_by_Cana...
- daleharvey 8y agoOne of the more interesting disputes - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pig_War_(1859) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pig_War_(1859)
- tomkat0789 8y agoMy own Wikipedia roaming uncovered the story of Otokichi, a Japanese sailor on a cargo ship to Edo that got (very!) lost in a storm and ended up on the coast of Washington state. And that was only the beginning of his adventures! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Otokichi https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Otokichi (through the Cape Blanco link in another comment).