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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!

by Cara Giaimo via Atlas Obscura on 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.

by Cara Giaimo via Atlas Obscura on June 4, 2018
Solved: A Decades-Old Ansel Adams Mystery

The answer was hidden in the shadows.

by Cara Giaimo via Atlas Obscura on 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.

by Cara Giaimo via Atlas Obscura on July 11, 2017
How 19th Century Techno-Skeptics Ridiculed Thomas Edison

At his peak, newspapers loved to tease the inventor. They also feared him.

by Cara Giaimo via Atlas Obscura on February 28, 2017

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