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USC and UCLA to the Big 10?
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<blockquote data-quote="Froginbedford" data-source="post: 3163930" data-attributes="member: 71196"><p>Despite its name, the international date line has no legal international status and countries are free to choose the dates that they observe. While the date line generally runs north to south from pole to pole, <strong>it zigzags around political borders such as eastern Russia and Alaska's Aleutian Islands</strong>.</p><p></p><p>As stated above, the date line is arbitrary in relation to various national needs....It does not rigidly follow the 180th longitude....In 1999, Kiribati changed the date line from dividing that country into two days zones to one zone ostensibly for business purposes, but with the added ability to attract hipsters who wanted to vacation there where they could be among the first to see the year 2000 under the mistaken impression that they would have such a personal brag to friends (not really the first year of the new millenium...calendar years started at 1 CE, not 0...therefore the new century began at 2001)....Guam, a US territory is west date line and closer to Japan and Korea than to the United States, and can be considered the farthest east part of the US....American Samoa is east of the date line....Name those Hawaiian islands that are west of the date line....This is all nerdy, but it's about as stimulating a conversation as speculation over whether Colorado State, Tulane, SMU, Rice, Tulsa, University of North Texas, Arkansas State, and Memphis will be joining the Big 12 to create a 20-team mini-mega-conference....</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Froginbedford, post: 3163930, member: 71196"] Despite its name, the international date line has no legal international status and countries are free to choose the dates that they observe. While the date line generally runs north to south from pole to pole, [B]it zigzags around political borders such as eastern Russia and Alaska's Aleutian Islands[/B]. As stated above, the date line is arbitrary in relation to various national needs....It does not rigidly follow the 180th longitude....In 1999, Kiribati changed the date line from dividing that country into two days zones to one zone ostensibly for business purposes, but with the added ability to attract hipsters who wanted to vacation there where they could be among the first to see the year 2000 under the mistaken impression that they would have such a personal brag to friends (not really the first year of the new millenium...calendar years started at 1 CE, not 0...therefore the new century began at 2001)....Guam, a US territory is west date line and closer to Japan and Korea than to the United States, and can be considered the farthest east part of the US....American Samoa is east of the date line....Name those Hawaiian islands that are west of the date line....This is all nerdy, but it's about as stimulating a conversation as speculation over whether Colorado State, Tulane, SMU, Rice, Tulsa, University of North Texas, Arkansas State, and Memphis will be joining the Big 12 to create a 20-team mini-mega-conference.... [/QUOTE]
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