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Ambience Antarctica
Ambience Antarctica Ice contains no future, just the past, sealed away. As if they’re alive, everything in the world is sealed up inside, clear and distinct. Ice can preserve all kinds of things that way – cleanly, clearly. That’s the essence of ice, the role it plays. –Haruki Murakami, Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman I was greeted
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Moonglade
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
Snapping Night Suns
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 Race That Eats Its Young
The Race That Eats Its Young In April 1968, James Earl Ray assassinated Martin Luther King, Jr., in Memphis. After a two-month stint on the run across the United States, Canada, and England, authorities apprehended Ray in London as he attempted to flee to Africa. Back in the USA, Ray landed in Tennessee’s Brushy Mountain
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The Mountain Minute | Episode 0
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The Queen of Cocodona
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
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
Artemis II
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
Campbell Hill – Ohio’s High Point
Campbell Hill – Ohio’s High Point Despite Ohio’s flat reputation, the state sits on the boundary between Appalachia’s ruggedness and the glaciated farmland of the Midwest. The southeastern region of the state is covered with steep hills, stunning gorges, and dense forest. Ironically, Ohio’s zenith does not reside in Appalachia but in the scoured western zone. Its
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