Twelve Mile Circle – An Appreciation of Unusual Places

Month: December 2012

  • Best Comments of 2012

    It is the last 12MC post of 2012 and a perfect time to wrap-up the year with a summary article. I decided to follow the example of Steve of Connecticut Museum Quest who featured his 2012 Top Comments. It seemed like an interesting twist, focusing on the audience rather than the articles. So in the…

  • Strange Canadian Bedfellows

    So I posted an article a few months ago called Strange Bedfellows. It explored country size comparisons included within the CIA World Factbook (e.g., “Botswana is about the size of Texas”). It was a great resource, I noted, for readers from the United States because landmasses were compared to US-based equivalents. Because the Central Intelligence…

  • Christmas Fluff

    Who reads 12MC on Christmas Day? Right. It’s just you and me today. Throw another log on the fire and don’t expect anything requiring research. This leaves me in a bit of a conundrum. I usually post an article on Tuesday. I suppose I could take the day off which would be a sane and…

  • Frank Sinatra’s Drive

    As Ol’ Blue Eyes — Francis Albert “Frank” Sinatra — so famously sang: If I can make it there I’ll make it anywhere It’s up to you Hoboken, Hoboken Say what?!? Frank Sinatra arrived in this world in Hoboken, New Jersey in 1915, not New York City, and he lived his first couple of decades…

  • Short Distance Namesakes

    Something has been bothering me since I mentioned the town of Washington, Virginia recently in Flip-Flopping. It claims title to the oldest town named for George Washington, platted by none other than George Washington himself in 1749. I noted that many call it Little Washington to differentiate it from nearby Washington, DC which dates to…

  • Highest Religious Affiliation

    I’ve been spending a little time on the Religion Census 2010 website. It includes a wealth of maps and numerical tables which I’m sure to draw upon for future articles. But a few data extremes came to the forefront of my mind immediately as I leafed through some of the reports. First, don’t confuse this…

  • Egyptian Revival Churches

    Let’s start by noting that Egyptian Revival refers to an architectural style. Also, my understanding of architecture borders on nil. So, Egyptian Revival in this context has everything to do with the physical characteristics of a building. It’s a bit confusing because many churches also hold revivals. Those are completely different. I’ll be talking about…

  • The Chunk That Got Away

    Social Circle, Georgia would seem to hit all of the highpoints necessary for coverage on Twelve Mile Circle (map). It has an odd name (Social Circle?). Also it has the word “circle” in its title just like the humble 12MC itself. Finally, it is one of those unusual Georgia towns with an actual circular shape,…

  • Yuma Anomaly

    I received an email message the other day from a first-time reader. He happened to stumble across Twelve Mile Circle randomly through a search engine, hoping to learn the answer to a burning question. I’d never covered the topic on the site before so I didn’t have a ready answer. Nonetheless I found it both…

  • Editorial: Numerical Irrelevance

    Fair warning, this article contains opinions and editorial content. You’re welcome to continue reading or come back in a couple of days. Then I’ll return to the more traditional mix of geo-oddities and weird locations. First, let me leave a note to myself in the Year 2050. Hopefully I’ll still be alive and writing 12MC,…