A BIT OF TRIVIA TO FOOL YOUR FRIENDS!

Greetings and Salutations to All my Kith and Kin and All the Ships in Outer Space: Here's a tricky trivia question that I just now thought up: "How many states are there in the United States of America?" And here's your VERY surprising answer: "The United States of America has forty-six (46) states." Kentucky, Massachusetts, Pennsylvania, and Virginia are commonwealths. According to one definition I read on the Internet, the main difference is that in a commonwealth, the power of local governments is superior to that of the state. However, not everything you find on the Internet can be relied on for accuracy, for that same web site erroneously identified the states as "democracies", even though Article IV, Section 4, Paragraph 1 of the CONSTITUTION OF THE UNITED STATES specifically says that each state is guaranteed a republican form of government. Nifty stuff, huh? Thank you. John Robert Mallernee Official Bard of Clan Henderson Armed Forces Retirement Home Washington, D.C.  20011-8400 NOTE: "My unpopular and controversial personal opinions are independent of my Scottish clan."