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Filed in National by on September 23, 2019

What is the highest grossing film set in Delaware?

Fight Club (1999)
Total Lifetime Domestic Gross: $37,030,102
Total Worldwide: $100.9 million

Goosebumps (1995)
Total Lifetime Domestic Gross: $80,080,379
Total Worldwide: $158.26 million

In 1860 (on the eve of the Civil War) what percentage of Delaware’s black population was free?

According to wikipedia in 1869 92% of Delaware’s blacks were “free” which is not to say that they had any rights.

Shifts in the agriculture economy from tobacco to mixed farming resulted in less need for slaves’ labor. In addition local Methodists and Quakers encouraged slaveholders to free their slaves following the American Revolution, and many did so in a surge of individual manumissions for idealistic reasons. By 1810 three-quarters of all blacks in Delaware were free. When John Dickinson freed his slaves in 1777, he was Delaware’s largest slave owner with 37 slaves. By 1860, the largest slaveholder owned 16 slaves.[27]

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  1. jason330 says:

    With a 60 ft mean elevation, Delaware is ranked 50th out of 50 states in that climate change related stat. Florida has a lower “highest point” 345 ft to our 447 ft

    The highest mean elevation is Colorado at 6,800 ft. So if you wanted to build a building in DE that got you up to Colorado’s height, that building would have about 674 floors. The Burj Khalifa only has 163 occupied floors, so you’d need 4 Burj Khalifas on top of each other.

  2. jason330 says:

    Another tax haven, Luxembourg, at 998 sq m. smaller than Delaware.

    Tuvalu is a speck.

    Delaware (2,489 sq m.) is about the same size as the Occupied Palestinian Territories (2,401 sq m.).

    “Palestinian territories” has been used for many years to describe the territories occupied by Israel since 1967, namely the West Bank and the Gaza Strip. More recently, the official United Nations terminology has been used, Occupied Palestinian Territory increasingly replacing other terms since 1999.

  3. RE Vanella says:

    From the river to the sea…

    #FreePalestine

  4. Jason330 says:

    Chemours stock sold for $20.85 when the company was spun off fron DuPont on June 19th 2015. The most recent close was $14.40, so the cmpany has lost 30% percent of its value.

    All in all, not terribly performance for a comany that was spun off to assume various liabilities arising from lawsuits against DuPont.

  5. jason330 says:

    6.9% of Delawareans live in a house in which Spanish is spoken. After Spanish it is Chinese, then French, then waaaaaay down the list (below Telugu, Hindi, Gujarati and Tagalog) is Italian.

    Spanish 6.9% 60.3k
    Chinese 0.8% 7,4700
    French 0.4% 3,1890
    Western African 0.3% 2,7180
    Haitian 0.3% 2,3760
    Tagalog 0.3% 2,2980
    Gujarati (Indo-Aryan language native to the Indian state of Gujarat ) 0.3% 2,2960
    German 0.3% 2,2670
    Telugu (a Dravidian language spoken in the Indian states of Andhra Pradesh) 0.3% 2,2350
    Swahili 0.2% 2,1830
    Hindi 0.2% 2,1410
    Italian 0.2% 1,831

    https://statisticalatlas.com/state/Delaware/Languages

  6. jason330 says:

    Rehoboth shares a line of latitude with Portugal, so if you had a boat and headed due west you’d run into what the Romans called Lusitania.

    But if Pangea was smooshed back togehter int he same configuration it had during the late Paleozoic and early Mesozoic eras, we’d be able to walk to Western Sahara which is a disputed territory on the northwest coast and in the Maghreb region of North and West Africa, partially controlled by the self-proclaimed Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic and partially occupied by neighboring Morocco.

  7. jason330 says:

    You can find Delaware’s oldest building in Claymont. (Built in 1654 a mere 43 after the publication of the King James Bible)

    But check out Dover’s entry in the oldest building derby. (1677)

    Stay classy, Dover.