11.   Protestants, led by David Trimble of the Ulster Unionist Party, argued that the province had to remain British as long as it had a Protestant majority.

12.   Seven Canadian provinces have them, too.

13.   Several provinces have laws protecting underwater artifacts, including sunken ships, but Quebec is not among them.

14.   Some Canadian provinces have labor laws against use of replacement workers.

15.   The oil and gas revenues that back the bond will be placed with a bank in New York, and the province will have no access to them.

16.   The province has an agreement with BPA to store additional water beyond its Columbia River Treaty obligations.

17.   The province has billions of dollars worth of untapped mineral reserves.

18.   The province could have its own constitution, Parliament and symbols like a flag and an anthem.

19.   The two parties agree that the provinces should have more power than the African National Congress wishes to relinquish, but on little else.

20.   These sun-baked provinces have always produced wine, most of it heavy alcoholic stuff shipped off in bulk for blending with thin northern wines.