• niktemadur@lemmy.world
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    5 months ago

    Look at The Atlantick getting all fancy on us, a CK at the end is like wearing tails and top hat, maybe even a monocle. Perhaps even a step further back, all the way to powdered wig.

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    The British also zoned out in the middle of crossing Michigan’s upper peninsula, and didn’t realize how far they’d travelled, just like driving the Seney Stretch

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      It’s actually got a huge area of land called The Great Dismal Swamp. Lots of park land and wilderness in rural Virginia. Someone from the area may be able to weigh in on it. I passed through years ago and the name struck me as hilarious.

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        If you’ve ever been in southern VA in the summer you’ll understand the name “Dismal.” It is nice that we have protected wetlands though.

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        It’s actually a wetlands/swamp that stretches from Norfolk into north Carolina. Most people don’t really realize that most of the area south of the Mid-Atlantic coast was at one point all swamp/marsh. The Great dismal swamp was nearly 3 times as large only a couple hundred years ago.

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    The st Lawrence River is a lot like the Mediterranean in that if it was a Fantasy map it would not look realistic enough

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    I guess it was hard to map out ish on the west/east axis which is why Florida is janky. Things look a lot more proportional north/south