Volcán Tajumulco – Guatemala and Central America’s High Point

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Volcán Tajumulco – Guatemala and Central America’s High Point Despite its proximity to sea level – nowhere in the region lies more than 125 miles from an ocean – Central America contains some serious elevation. The American Cordillera forms a nearly continuous backbone from South America’s continental toes in Patagonia to the tippy pate of Alaska’s coast along […]

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The History of Eclipse Photography

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The History of Eclipse Photography Here lie the bodies of Ho and HiWhose fate though sad was visible,Being hanged because they could not spyTh’eclipse which was invisible. Heigh ho! ’tis said, that being drunkThus brought them into trouble,But surely this is incorrect,As drunken folks see double!  —Book of Documents Since the dawn of the Solar System,

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Moonglade

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Moonglade Kuun silta kromikeltainen  käy ylle kylmäin vesienja jäisten kaislarantain.Sen sillan ääriä ei näy.Yön tyhjyyteen sen holvi käy  mun uniani kantain.  –Aaro Hellaakoski, “Erojaiset”  Moonglade is a nearly perfect poetic word. It rolls off the tongue melodically and marries two vivid images, conjuring a magical amalgamation. The English word “glade” today refers to “an open passage

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Snapping Night Suns

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Snapping Night Suns I’ve written multiple times about my love of fireflies. I find them so wonderful that I anointed them with the over-the-top nickname of “Suns of the Terrestral Night.” I called the late-spring, early-summer period when bearable humidity overlaps with lengthy daylight and the appearance of nature’s bioluminescent beetles  as “The Best Time of

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The Queen of Cocodona

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This is part 2 of 3 of Marathon

The Queen of Cocodona In 1896, the organizers of the first Modern Olympiad decided to honor a run that an ancient Greek courier named Pheidippides (maybe) made after the Battle of Marathon in 490 BCE. The newly coined “marathon” featured a distance that roughly mirrored the stretch from Marathon to Athens, around 25 miles (today, a

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Marathon

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Marathon Rejoice, we conquer!  — Pheidippides, Robert Browning One of the most ubiquitous automobile decals is a simple outlined oval with the number 26.2 emblazoned within it. It means, depending on one’s viewpoint, that the driver is crazy, impressive, smug, masochistic, or some mixture of all four. The sticker signals the car’s owner ran 26.2 miles, otherwise known

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Artemis II

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Artemis II On 21 December 1968, Apollo 8 left the planet on top of a Saturn V rocket. During the mission, Frank Borman, Jim Lovell, and William Anders became the first humans to leave Earth’s gravitational sphere of influence on their way to the Moon. They were the first people to see our satellite in

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