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Fifty-Four Forty or Fight

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Barna Norton's Story Conflicts With Canada's

Tall barney was born in jonesport, maine in eight 35. In the spring of 18 65, he went out to sea and camped on a little island ten miles off the coast of maine called machias seal island. He came to believe that this island belonged to him - so did his great grandson barna norton who claimed it as his own for six decades. The us-canada border is the longest bilateral border between two countries in the world,. It's five thousand 525 miles long. This little chunk of 20 acres are the last crumbs of land that both countries claim as theirs.

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