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I enjoy county counting but it becomes increasingly difficult to reach new counties as my count increases. That’s why I began a sub-variant involving overnight counties. You see it counts “more” by my arbitrary rules if I spend an entire night there instead of simply passing through. That’s because it involves a tangible financial commitment, […] The post Culpeper Co., Virginia appeared first on Twelve Mile Circle - An Appreciation of Unusual Places.
If you’re driving along Indiana’s portion of Interstate 69, say from Evansville to Bloomington, you are going to cross a Time Zone boundary. It happens between Mile Markers 37.5 and 39.0, about forty minutes north of Evansville at normal highway speeds. But please note that the situation gets genuinely weird as you cross between zones […] The post Indiana I-69 Time Zone Crossing appeared first on Twelve Mile Circle - An Appreciation of Unusual Places.
It seemed strange to fixate on a single tree for more than a decade but that’s exactly what happened. I notice it a few weeks every autumn and then quickly forget about it for another year. That all started sometime around 2013 when I began to ride a stretch of the Capital Crescent Trail along […] The post Osage Orange appeared first on Twelve Mile Circle - An Appreciation of Unusual Places.
I hinted at ulterior motives in the last article about my long weekend in Denver. I didn’t travel all the way out there just to casually tour around. Indeed, I had a very specific purpose in mind — checking off a bucket list item in fact — attending the Great American Beer Festival. The Biggest […] The post Great American Beer Festival (and More) appeared first on Twelve Mile Circle - An Appreciation of Unusual Places.
I’ve been traveling a lot lately. It feels like I just got back from the Pacific Northwest, and before that England, and then I’m heading right back out the door again. This should do it for awhile though; I need some rest. But this trip was a little different because I was there for some […] The post Broomfield and Denver Weekend appeared first on Twelve Mile Circle - An Appreciation of Unusual Places.
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The United States Disappeared Tracker is a new Tableau visualization from Danielle Harlow. It shows where people have been taken into custody by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). This map is part of a dashboard that “visualizes person brought into ICE custody when the trump Administration has demonstrated undeniable political motive/animus and/or the person has been denied appropriate due process, even if the charges are eventually substantiated in a court of law.“ Being a dashboard, there are also charts and lists of the disappeared. You can also hover over the map for details on some of the incidents. The data sources are not clear but 370 people just in Massachusetts? The author is also working on an ICE Flights Tracker.
The two previous GeoCurrents posts examined the biological significance of continents by looking at the distribution of animals. It is time now to turn out attention to plants. One of the most influential divisions of the world into “floristic kingdoms” is that of botanist Ronald Good, found in his 1947 book The Geography of Flowering […] The post Floristic Kingdoms and the Architecture of Continents appeared first on GeoCurrents.
