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The Many Lives of ‘Sounds of North American Frogs’
This metamorphic record is a teaching tool, a flirtation device, a college radio favorite, a nostalgic object, and more. BOOP!
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Cara Giaimo
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Atlas Obscura
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January 23, 2024
How Many Liquor Bottles Can You Find in This 1931 Map of Chicago?
The "Gangland Map" features drunken fish and goofy jokes alongside descriptions of brutal murders.
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Cara Giaimo
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Atlas Obscura
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June 4, 2018
Solved: A Decades-Old Ansel Adams Mystery
The answer was hidden in the shadows.
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Cara Giaimo
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Atlas Obscura
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April 20, 2018
How A National Monument Full of Fossils Was Stolen to Death
Fossil Cycad National Monument held America's richest deposit of petrified cycadeoid plants, until it didn't.
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Cara Giaimo
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Atlas Obscura
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July 11, 2017
How 19th Century Techno-Skeptics Ridiculed Thomas Edison
At his peak, newspapers loved to tease the inventor. They also feared him.
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Cara Giaimo
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Atlas Obscura
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February 28, 2017