Month: September 2012
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Super City
Metropolis. The city where Superman hangs his cape. It’s a huge place on the order of New York or Chicago or somewhere of that magnitude. This is the image that comes to mind whenever I hear about Metropolis. Sure it’s also a renowned German movie from the silent film era. However, the Twelve Mile Circle…
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Ancient Trust
I seem to have a little bit of a river island fixation going on recently. I started with Green River Island and now I’m featuring Burlington Island (map). Even so, I think it’s probably just these two articles, a coincidence actually. Burlington doesn’t have quite the pedigree of a Supreme Court decision like Green River…
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Meet Me at the Corner of David and Goliath
I’ve had the unusual experience of starting an article in one direction and watching it detour along a different path as I typed. That has happened a handful of times before on Twelve Mile Circle. However it’s rather infrequent. Here is the map that started my journey. Goliath Road in North Massapequa, New York stretches…