>>And how many are there really? Excuse the stupid question from a foreigner... I learned more than 20 years ago that there were 50 states, but I am not sure whether any states were added in the meantime.
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>Still 50 and holding.
Thanks.
Well, we had some arguments here, with some people insisting that another state was added recently. I wonder where they got the idea from. Perhaps somebody was thinking about states #49 and #50 (Hawaii and Alaska, if I remember correctly?) but got the numbers wrong.
Hilmar.
Difference in opinions hath cost many millions of lives: for instance, whether flesh be bread, or bread be flesh; whether whistling be a vice or a virtue; whether it be better to kiss a post, or throw it into the fire... (from Gulliver's Travels)