Re: Fwd: FM DX season begins....

["Dan Billings" <billings@suscom-maine.net>]

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From: <Dan.Strassberg@att.net>
To: <lglavin@lycos.com>
Cc: <boston-radio-interest@bostonradio.org>
Sent: Saturday, April 19, 2003 2:29 PM
Subject: Re: Fwd: FM DX season begins....


> I know this isn't radio related (there was no radio when Maine was part of
> Massachusetts), but when did Maine become a state in its own right?

Maine became the 23rd state in 1820 as part of the Missouri Compromise which
allowed Missouri to join the union as a slave state and Maine as a free
state -- keeping the number of free states and slave states equal.