KRAD's Inaccurate Guide to Life

Warsaw surrendered after weeks of resistance against the Nazi invading force (1939)

THE CENTER OF AMERICA

The U.S. Geological Survey, admitting that there is no universally accepted or utterly satisfactory definition of the "geographic center" of an area, offers one definition as "the center of gravity of the surface, or that point on which the surface of an area would balance if it were a plane of uniform thickness." Clearly, a number of factors will influence any measurement of the center of America (large bodies of water, the curvature of the Earth, etc.), not to mention the exact definition of the landmass:

Geographic area		location
Conterminous U.S. (48 states)	nr Lebanon, Smith County, KS	39°50'N 98°35'W
Continental U.S. (49 states)	nr Castle Rock, Butte County, SD	44°59'N 103°38'W
The U.S. (50 states)	W. of Castle Rock, Butte County, SD	44°58'N 103°46'W
North American Continent	6 mi W. of Balta, Pierce County, ND	48°10'N 100°10'W

There's nothing which cannot be made a mess of again by officials.
Konrad Adenauer (1876-1967)

6 October: I'll be signing Farscape: The Beginning of the End of the Beginning at the Barnes & Noble in Park Slope (267 7th Av., Brooklyn, NY, 718-832-9066) at 7.30pm.

10 October: I'll be the monthly guest speaker at the Garden State Horror Writers, at the East Brunswick Public Library (2 Jean Walling Civic Center, East Brunswick, NJ, 732-390-6767).

11 October: I'll be attending the Baltimore Comic Con for Sunday only, signing at the BOOM! Studios booth all the live-long day.

A fascinating account of how a reporter named Stetson Kennedy went undercover with the Ku Klux Klan and passed on several of their trade secrets and passwords to the writers of the Superman radio show. The presence of the KKK as bad guys on the popular radio drama did a lot to damage the Klan's credibility and power in the 1940s.

Thanks to dersham for the link...