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Originally published October 16th, 2023 on Cohost (RIP) Doveland, Wisconsin is the purported name of a small town in Wisconsin- where in Wisconsin? Uh, we're not sure- "the heart of the state", is the best you'll get. And don't check maps either, because it's gone.
Continue reading...Originally published September 14th, 2023 on Cohost (RIP) Bermeja Island was a small, completely unremarkable island off the coast of Mexico's Yucatan peninsula. An uninhabited spec, north of Scorpion Reef, with only one small wrinkle- it doesn't exist. Bermeja (or Bermejo, or Vermeja, or Bermesa,…
Continue reading...originally posted September 3rd, 2024, on Cohost (RIP) all illustrations by Else Bostelmann From 1930-1934, American naturalist William Beebe conducted a series of deep sea dives off of Bermuda, from their base on Nonsuch Island, using a bathysphere, a primitive deep sea submersible designed by…
Continue reading...This is the first of a lot of posts I'll be importing from Cohost. Originally posted: May 27th, 2023 This isn't my favorite Maplestory BGM, but just. Man I love this part of Ludibrium. For the uninitiated (consider yourselves lucky), Maplestory is a 2D side-scrolling…
Continue reading...did you know the trademark aqua blue of many old glass jars (and insulators) came from the iron-rich sand of the Hoosier Slide, a 200 foot tall sand dune on the shore of Lake Michigan in Indiana? It's gone now. Has been for a very…
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