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added humorous note on the ironic uselessness of the comic to an astronaut

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 | Hancock, Maine
 | Maine
-| Misspelled SemEtary in the comic.
 |-
 | {{w|What About Bob?|What about Bob}}
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 *Not everything {{w|Mark Twain}} wrote was really set on the {{w|Mississippi River}}. For instance, he first gained attention as a fiction writer with "{{w|The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County}}," which is about {{w|Northern California}}. Indeed, during his lifetime, Twain was known mostly as a travel writer, not a novelist.
 *Kill Bill doesn't take place in southern or eastern Texas. The wedding chapel scene takes place in {{w|El Paso}}, around the same area No Country for Old Men takes place.
-*Later after the initial release of this comic Randall added a link to this page. It's viewable in the HTML-source or here: [https://xkcd.com/1509/info.0.json https://xkcd.com/1509/info.0.json]. The text is: ''"Some fans have completely dissected the joke for you http:\n\nwww.explainxkcd.com\nwiki\nindex.php\n1509"''.
+*Later after the initial release of this comic Randall added a link to this wiki's page. It's viewable in the HTML-source or here: [https://xkcd.com/1509/info.0.json https://xkcd.com/1509/info.0.json]. The text is: ''"Some fans have completely dissected the joke for you http:\n\nwww.explainxkcd.com\nwiki\nindex.php\n1509"''.
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 The map is divided into the 48 states of the mainland by thin gray lines. On top of these are drawn black lines that divide the map into 50 sections. (A 51st section is located in the Atlantic Ocean.) Inside each section is at least one reference that is supposed to describe the entire area encompassed by the section. In most cases it is the title of a movie (or two to three titles), but it could also be more general specter of movies (all movies with a big budget, or those with whose title is an east coast city name) or it could even be a book/song that describes the relevant area.
-The map's heading describes the idea behind it; if you know this and the relevant movies, you can use it to determine where you are by comparing your knowledge of the movies with the scenery you can see from where you stand. Below the heading, the two groups of people who will get the most use out of this sheet are listed. The first is "GeoGuessrs". {{w|GeoGuessr}} is a game using {{w|Google Street View}} images, which drops the player in a random location and challenges them to work out where they are. (It was previously referenced in [[1214: Geoguessr]]). The second group is "crash-landed astronauts". Obviously, if you've just crash-landed on Earth, knowing your location would be very helpful.
+The map's heading describes the idea behind it; if you know this and the relevant movies, you can use it to determine where you are by comparing your knowledge of the movies with the scenery you can see from where you stand. Below the heading, the two groups of people who will get the most use out of this sheet are listed. The first is "GeoGuessrs". {{w|GeoGuessr}} is a game using {{w|Google Street View}} images, which drops the player in a random location and challenges them to work out where they are. (It was previously referenced in [[1214: Geoguessr]]). The second group is "crash-landed astronauts". Obviously, if you've just crash-landed on Earth, knowing your location would be very helpful. That said, this map only helps if you land in the contiguous United States, which is not very likely overall.
 Some entries (for instance, ''{{w|Groundhog Day (film)|Groundhog Day}}'') reflect the locations where the stories are set, and others (like ''{{w|Dances with Wolves}}'') reflect where they were filmed. Others are even more detached, as it is the sceneries from the movie that resembles a given place, even though it is neither filmed there or takes place there. It could also be a cartoon, which is of course only set in an imaginary world that may resemble the real world.

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 :Tombstone
 :& The Mask of Zorro
-:[Large section covering the a small part of AZ, the bottom half of NM as well as a third of TX:]
+:[Large section covering a small part of AZ, the bottom half of NM as well as a third of TX:]
 :No Country for Old Men
 :[Large section covering all of ND, most of MN, half of SD and a small part of MT:]

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 | {{w|Zodiac (film)|Zodiac}}
-| {{w|San Francisco Bay Area}}, CA
+| {{w|San Francisco Bay Area}}
-| San Francisco Bay Area and {{w|Los Angeles}}, CA
+| San Francisco Bay Area and {{w|Los Angeles}}
 | San Francisco Bay Area, CA
 | According to {{w|Zodiac_(film)#Production|Wikipedia}}, "The San Francisco Chronicle was built in the old post office in the Terminal Annex Building in downtown Los Angeles. A building on nearby Spring Street subbed for the Hall of Justice and the San Francisco Police Department. Production began on September 12, 2005. The filmmakers shot for five weeks in the San Francisco Bay Area and the rest of the time in Los Angeles, bringing the film in under budget, wrapping in February 2006. The film took 115 days to shoot."
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 | {{w|The Rock (film)|The Rock}}
 | {{w|Alcatraz Island}}
-| Alcatraz Island, CA
+| Alcatraz Island
 | Alcatraz Island, CA
+|
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 |-
 | {{w|Napoleon Dynamite}}
-| {{w|Preston, Idaho|Preston}}, ID
+| {{w|Preston, Idaho|Preston}}, Idaho
-| Preston, ID
+| Preston, Idaho
 | {{w|Idaho}} (not including Preston)
+|
 |-
 | {{w|The Sandlot}}
-| Suburban {{w|Los Angeles}}, CA
+| Suburban {{w|Los Angeles}}
-| {{w|Salt Lake City, Utah|Salt Lake City}}, UT
+| {{w|Salt Lake City, Utah}}
 | {{w|Idaho}}, {{w|Utah}}
+|
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 | {{w|Wild Wild West}}
 | The southwest area
-| {{w|Tucson, Arizona|Tucson}}, AZ; {{w|Santa Fe, New Mexico|Snata Fe}}, NM; {{w|Pierce, Idaho|Pierce}}, ID
+| {{w|Tucson, Arizona}}; {{w|Santa Fe, New Mexico}}; {{w|Pierce, Idaho}}
 | {{w|Nevada}}
 | Set near {{w|Promontory Point}}, UT
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 |-
 | {{w|Independence Day (1996 film)|Part of Independence Day}}
-| Grand Canyon, Area 51
+| Grand Canyon & Area 51
-| Utah, Nevada
+| Utah / Nevada
+|
 |-
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 | {{w|The Truman Show}}<br>but with desert in the background
 | "Seahaven" (fictional place in the Los Angeles, CA area)
-| Seaside, FL, and Los Angeles, CA
+| Seaside, Florida, and Los Angeles, California
 | Las Vegas NV, California, Arizona
 | If it were filmed in Las Vegas...
 |-
 | {{w|Tombstone (film)|Tombstone}}
-| {{w|Tombstone, Arizona|Tombstone}}, AZ
+| {{w|Tombstone, Arizona|Tombstone, AZ}}
 | Arizona
 | rowspan="2" | Southern Arizona
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 | {{w|The Wizard of Oz (1939 film)|The Wizard of Oz}}
 | Kansas, Oz
-| Culver City, CA
+| Culver City, California
 | Kansas, Colorado
 | The Judy Garland version, presumably. The earth parts.
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 |-
 | {{w|8 Mile (film)|8 Mile}}
-| Wayne County, MI
+| Wayne County, Michigan
+|
+|
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 |-
 | {{w|Duck Dynasty}}
-| {{w|West Monroe, Louisiana|West Monroe}}, LA
+| {{w|West Monroe, Louisiana|West Monroe, LA}}
+|
 | Northern Louisiana and Mississippi
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 |-
 | {{w|Miami Vice}}
-| Miami, FL
+| Miami
 | Television show: Many episodes in the South Beach section of Miami Beach, FL, also Broward and Palm Beach counties, FL; Film: Caribbean, Uruguay, Paraguay and South Florida
 | Miami metro area
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 | N/A
 | Washington DC, Baltimore, New York City, Philadelphia
-| Washington, DC has a reputation for requiring extensive fees and permits to film within the city. As a result, most movies set in DC are filmed somewhere else entirely. Thus, DC movie backgrounds would only give a viewer an idea of what a generic city would look like.
+| Washington DC has a reputation for requiring extensive fees and permits to film within the city. As a result, most movies set in DC are filmed somewhere else entirely. Thus, DC movie backgrounds would only give a viewer an idea of what a generic city would look like.
 |-
 | {{w|Deep Impact (film)|Deep Impact}}
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 |-
 | {{w|Pet Sematary}}
-| Ludlow, ME
+| Ludlow, Maine
-| Hancock, ME
+| Hancock, Maine
 | Maine
 | Misspelled SemEtary in the comic.
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 | Boston, MA
 | Boston & New York
-| Boston, MA
+| Boston
+|
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