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31-Mar-2014 Daily Curio: From Bridge to Nowhere to Trolls to Lower Wacker to...
Thanks to Beth Voigt for today’s seed! The Kinzie St. Bridge to Nowhere Longest, heaviest, and useless Chicago is a bridge lovers paradise. With three branches of the river snaking through all parts of...
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1-Apr-2014 Daily Curio: From A&W to Corina to Big to Sumo
Thanks to triviabot for providing today’s seed. A&W’s Dark Past What? No Root Beer? You’ll see A&W root beer in supermarkets today, but few know its history as a roadside stand. It all started...
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8-Apr-2014 Daily Curio – Connected: From Jumbo to Barnum to Fiji Mermaid to...
Jumbo Hello! When you hear the word “Jumbo,” you probably think “big,” or “large” or maybe even “shrimp.” And there’s a reason for that: it was the name of a very large elephant. Billed as “The King of...
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Daily Curio – Connected: The Proliferations of Pineapples
Pineapple Architecture From the Simmons-Edwards House, Charleston, South Carolina (These are actually Roman pine cones!) Pineapples are found so often in the colonial architecture of the United States...
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Daily Curio – Connected: Thar Be Whales Here!
The Essex Drawn by survivor Thomas Nickerson The tale of the last voyage of the Nantucket whaleship Essex reads like an old sea yarn, but it is well-documented by contemporary sources. An older ship...
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