Category: Miscellaneous
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Washington DC Area’s Last Phone Booth
NOTE: Twelve Mile Circle originally posted this article in November 2007. Verizon has since removed this phone booth. Sometimes changing technology can impact the landscape around it. Twelve Mile Circle notes the looming passage of an era: The Washington Post reported today on the Washington DC area’s last public phone booth. Apparently none of us…
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Thanksgiving Towns
Those of you in the United States will be celebrating Thanksgiving on November 22nd, so in recognition of that happy occasion, Twelve Mile Circle offers you a guide for your holiday feast. No Thanksgiving is complete without Turkey, so we offer several choices on the menu: Turkey in Texas, North Carolina, Arkansas and West Virginia;…
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Google Maps – “My Maps” Capability
I’ve embedded a number of Google Maps on pages throughout my website using the API for a variety of different personal interests, including my Brewery Visit map and my Family Descendants in Dodge & Jefferson Counties map. They weren’t particularly difficult to put together. However, they did require at least a rudimentary understanding of HTML, XML…
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Introduction and Purpose
Welcome to the Twelve Mile Circle! This site highlights unusual places on maps that just don’t seem to make sense. These may include state highpoints, non-contiguous boundaries, latitude/longitude confluences, and other trivial geographic points. This serves as a companion to my travel pages. Over there I detail some of my actual trips to Strange Geography…