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Message: [QUOTE="Phil, post: 2530462, member: 66"] You may have heard I was recently in Texas. While there I visited the state capital and took the tour. The tour guide explained that when Texas decided to build their capital be sold off some land to pay for it (the only capitol funded that way). The land was sold to a syndicate from Chicago who turned it into a ranch called the [URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XIT_Ranch']XIT Ranch[/URL]. The tour guide explained that the ranch was roughly the size of Connecticut. So they not only have cities with as many people as Connecticut they had a ranch as big as Connecticut. (If has subsequently been sold off in pieces.) Ooops, I see Danny beat me to it. [/QUOTE]