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Skoob's Blog

Stories you've probably never heard, inspired by hidden gems that are all around us.

Weekly Gem #254, The word "contraption" comes to mind

The word "contraption" comes to mind.

Weekly Gem #253, "I don't do circles."

Angular art, with a tiny little hitchhiker.

Weekly Gem #252, Hump Day, every day

What do you get when you mix a camel, a mule, and some whiskey (medicinal purposes, of course)?

Weekly Gem #251, A nice place to find yourself

You can get to just about anywhere from here ... assuming you can make yourself get up and leave!

Weekly Gem #250, There’s cautious. There’s reckless. And then there’s Evel!

“I did everything by the seat of my pants. That’s why I got hurt so much.”

Weekly Gem #249, Secret instructions for secret ‘maps’

Sayings and codes that led slaves to freedom.

Weekly Gem #248, Anaconda's reason for being

Anaconda was built from scratch, solely to crank out this metal that was needed to electrify America.

Weekly Gem #247, Timing is everything

Most clocks elicit a glance of a second or less, and no second glance. You look, you see the time, you move on. The Shepherd Gate Clock is a contrarian.

Weekly Gem #246, “Where are we?”

The 'time piece' at the top of the Flamsteed House

Weekly Gem #245, “I could feel the ship begin to quiver”

That this bell is in San Francisco rather than at the ocean floor near Guadalcanal is quite extraordinary

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Photo of Čumil (watcher) in Bratislava, Slovakia
Photo of the oval window in Hubbard Cottage at Campobello Island, New Brunswick, Canada
Photo of the United States Marine Corps War Memorial in Arlington, Virginia
Photo of Stonehenge in Wiltshire, England
Photo of Old Fart Road street sign
Photo of cannon ball in side of building in Copenhagen, Denmark
Photo of heartwood in Missoula, Montana
Photo of the Mission Dolores in San Francisco, California
Photo of a glacial erratic surrounded by schoodic granite
Preserved bog oak in Cong, Ireland
Photo of Asticou Azalea Garden in Northeast Harbor, ME

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