In November, Belgium and the Netherlands signed a treaty in which they agreed to exchange less than\u00a050 acres of land<\/a>\u00a0along the border.\u00a0The border is the Meuse River, but changes in the river\u2019s course over the\u00a0years has\u00a0left two pieces of Belgium on the east side and one piece of the Netherlands on the west. (Those are the \u201cwrong\u201d sides.) Nobody lived on any of these pieces, but authorities said they became a \u201chaven\u201d for shady people and practices because\u00a0the relevant law-enforcement officers had to cross the river. Warfare was not required to make this border change, but it has apparently taken about six years to work out the detail.<\/em><\/p>\n I picked up the above story a few days ago but have been dilatory in posting it, for which we all get a bonus: look what I just found on Twitter: another peaceful border story! Although given that it’s between these two states, one must ask: will the people who found themselves in North Carolina be able to vote?<\/p>\n 16 people who went to sleep on December 31 as South Carolinians woke up as North Carolinians on January 1. I’d read news of the Belgium-Netherlands border conundrum due to a vagrant river, but got what’s below from Kevin Underhill, at Lowering the Bar. Several things to note about this sanguine conflict resolution: Neither country found it necessary to build … Continue reading ![\"\"](\"https:\/\/pbs.twimg.com\/profile_images\/724041403735638017\/qa4EDYBw_bigger.jpg\")
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