>>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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>>Hilmar.
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>50.
Thanks for confirming this.
> Not a stupid question at all. I'm sure you know way more about the US than I will ever know about Bolivia.
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598829 interesting. The part that caught the attention of most people was the discussion of an "Ancient and Holy Leaf", grown here in Bolivia.
I plan to post a thread with some more interesting details soon.
> 52, BTW, is the number of cards in a deck of cards. That's kind of why I find it so funny.
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)