Ella Morton's User Profile - Atlas Obscura
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map monday

The Psychedelic Moon Maps of the 1970s

August 24, 2015
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cheat week

How To Design a Magical Life

August 20, 2015
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cheat week

The Serpentine Story of Snake Oil, Or How I Came to Buy Snake Oil from Amazon.com

August 19, 2015
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cheat week

Object of Intrigue: The Turk, a Mechanical Chess Player that Unsettled the World

August 18, 2015
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map monday

Matrimonial Maps Chart the Delights and Perils of Marriage

August 10, 2015
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cemeteries

The New York Interns Spending their Summer in a Cemetery

August 7, 2015
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found

FOUND: A Plant that Can Make You Blind

August 6, 2015
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sports

Netball: The Sport America Invented, Then Lost

August 5, 2015
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airplanes

Object of Intrigue: A Passport for Falcons

August 4, 2015
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nasa

Why Russian Astronauts Pee on a Bus Tire Before Launching Into Space, and Other Pre-Flight Rituals

July 29, 2015
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protest

What It Actually Means to 'Read the Riot Act' to Someone

The saying got its start as an 18th-century British law to punish protestors.
July 28, 2022
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escape week

How to Escape a Conversation

July 23, 2015
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escape week

How To Escape From Handcuffs

July 21, 2015
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escape week

Battles, Batman, and Liberace: A Cultural History of Capes

July 20, 2015
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libraries

How to Harvest a Library in Just 100 Years

July 14, 2015
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atom bombs

Object of Intrigue: Glass Made by an Atomic Bomb

July 14, 2015
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Say Yes to the Seized Dress at a Government Bridalwear Auction

July 9, 2015
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film

Dorothy Arzner, Hidden Star Maker of Hollywood's Golden Age

July 8, 2015
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biblical

Object of Intrigue: The Devil's Bible

July 7, 2015
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film locations

Watch 'Singles' on VHS with 1,000 Strangers in the Seattle Courtyard Where It All Began

July 1, 2015
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crime and punishment

The Parting Gifts Convicts Gave Loved Ones Before Being Shipped to Australia

June 29, 2015
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subterranean sites

Forgotten Heritage: Subterranean Cisterns of Victorian England

June 26, 2015
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Basically Every City in the U.S. Has a Piece of the Berlin Wall

June 22, 2015
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The Princess Who Kept a Pet Lion at the Plaza Hotel

June 19, 2015