Category: geography
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Most oddly named towns in each US state
Saw this one on Twitter the other day: Most oddly named town in each US state pic.twitter.com/Bv04osyD5O — Terrible Maps (@TerribleMaps) November 24, 2018 Not geographical curiosities but still geography related. Terrible Maps didn’t link the article but I will – These Are the Most Oddly-Named Towns in Each U.S. State by Estately. Ding Dong. Oh,…
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Geographical curiosities
I’ve long had a love of what I refer to as geographical curiosities. I’m not sure if there is a proper word for it. For a while, I even had it mentioned on my personal homepage (history). I saw the flash talks from this year’s Grand Meetup had been uploaded last week so I went…
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Balgay Pavilion
Playing Ingress and Pokémon GO, I end up finding out about interesting historical things that otherwise I wouldn’t know about. The tagline from the start of Ingress was “It’s time to move”. Telling you that you had to physically find the places in the game. Now, there can be some utter nonsense submitted as Portals,…
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