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The Tasmanian Devil Repossesses

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The Tasmanian Devil Repossesses If you’re like I am, your first awareness of a Tasmanian Devil arrived thanks to the Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies character often nicknamed Taz. He grunts, growls, and sucks up anything and everything through his tornadic locomotion. The figure first appeared in 1954, but really picked up cultural steam when it reappeared in the 1990s. […]

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Setting Records at Furnace Creek

Leave a Comment / National Parks, Weather, Extremes / August 21, 2020

Setting Records at Furnace Creek With a 2010 tally of 20 people, Furnace Creek, California, is so sparsely populated that it is not a town, or village, or hamlet, but, instead, it’s called a “census-designated place.” The lack of home dwellers here might seem a bit anomalous, as it contains the headquarters, visitor center, and

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The Mt. St. Helens Eruption

4 Comments / Mountains, Volcanoes, Disasters / May 18, 2020

The Mt. St. Helens Eruption Today is the 40th anniversary of the eruption of Mt. St. Helens. Located in southern Washington’s Skamania County, the stratovolcano is 50 miles northeast of Portland and 100 miles south of Seattle. In early 1980 the mountain was 9,677 feet high, making it the fifth-highest peak in the state. Rising

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The Power of Jubilee

Leave a Comment / Woman Crush Wednesday / April 15, 2020

The Power of Jubilee Sometime in the 1930s, a father in London gave his daughter, instead of the usual teddy bear, a stuffed chimpanzee named Jubilee. According to the young girl, her mother’s friends were “horrified by this toy, thinking it would frighten” her and give her “nightmares.” That father was Mortimer Herbert Morris-Goodall and his

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Grandma Gatewood

Leave a Comment / Woman Crush Wednesday / March 25, 2020

Grandma Gatewood In 1955, 67-year-old Emma Rowena Gatewood decreed to her adult children she was going for a walk. She didn’t offer details and, facing a stubborn and resilient woman, her children didn’t demand any. She grabbed an army blanket, a raincoat, and a plastic shower curtain, stuffed them into a handmade denim bag, doffed a pair

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Denali – The High Point of Alaska, the United States, and North America

Leave a Comment / Mountains, High Points / March 2, 2020

Denali – The High Point of Alaska, the United States, and North America Eventually, as we continue to explore this fantastic orb of ours and, especially, its craggy splendors, we’ll investigate the high points of the continents and all 50 states in America. Since one spot scratches both itches, today we will gaze upon Denali. Situated

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Ice Balls & Ice Volcanoes

Leave a Comment / Weather / February 19, 2020

Ice Balls & Ice Volcanoes Here in the northern hemisphere, we are in the last weeks of Meteorological Winter (Astronomical Winter still has exactly one full month until the Vernal Equinox pulls us into spring). When big cold and big lakes combine sometimes unusual phenomena arise. The Great Lakes of the United States and Canada are

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Ansel Adams

Leave a Comment / Photography / February 12, 2020

Ansel Adams “Adams had a superior alertness to the gestures of the natural world, in their simplicity and their subtlety. And that was half the story. The other half was a rare sensitivity to his medium that allowed him to devise pictorial solutions that could stand as a surrogate for the experience. The experience,

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