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Welcome to Mid-Afternoon Map, our exclusive members-only newsletter that provides a cartographic perspective on current events, geopolitics, and history from the Caucasus to the Carolinas. Subscribers can look forward to interesting takes on good maps and bad maps, beautiful maps and ugly ones — and bizarre maps whenever possible.***In fairness to Donald Trump, he’s not the first person who’s contested the U.S.-Canadian border in the last two centuries. Today, we’ll look back at two more — both rogue Maine residents who tried to single-handedly start sovereignty disputes with Canada.The first is John Baker, self-proclaimer of the self-proclaimed Madawaska Republic. In the 1820s,
