Content tagged with “canada”

“So, here’s the problem with this book: the situation is ultimately just not that exciting. Yes, the movie was apparently great, and the set-up is amazing – diplomats hiding in a hostile country, escaping through disguise, etc. – but in the end, the CIA forged some documents and they all walked out….”

“It has to do with the transition from two-letter to three-letter codes. Originally, airport codes were just two-letters. In Canada, they decided to use the same code as the Morse code for the corresponding Canadian railway station. Eventually, it became important to know if an airport had a weather…”

“This is a geographic ‘notch’ of Minnesota that pokes up into Canada. It contains the northernmost point in the contiguous United States. What’s unique about this place is that it mostly consists of the Lake of the Words in the southern portion, which cross the entire span, from east to west. At the…”