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A crack is forming across the peninsula that is Upper Michigan, close to the Wisconsin border. It’s about 200 yards long, 5 feet deep, and growing:
Heider and neighbors heard an explosion-like sound Monday morning. Heider found the nearly 200-yard-long crevice, which measures five-feet deep in parts, Tuesday.
“I was sitting in my recliner and the recliner started to vibrate,” said Heider. “And it’s not electric.”
Trooper Paul Anderson with Michigan State Police was the first to check it out. He said he ruled out a gas line leak, but could not determine much more.
“This would be a first,” he said. “You don’t learn that at the academy.”
Anderson said he called some geological experts. So far none have come to look at the crevice.
There have not been any reported earthquakes in the area.
In the comments, offer scientifically unsound explanations about how this crack formed.
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This 15-acre dinosaur theme park formerly known as Prehistoric Forest is looking for a new owner. Located in Irish Hills, Michigan, the park comes with a two-story waterfall, a volcano (no longer smoking and rumbling), a main building, a gift shop, and 100 fiberglass dinosaurs.
The real estate agent suggests you could turn the place into a daycare center, a campground, a restaurant, or something else. She also suggests that you could apply for a liquor license.
According to AgilityNut, the park opened around 1963 with a safari train, a dino nest with eggs, a caveman, pterodactyls, a dig site with fossils, strange giant daisies and fake cactus. The dinosaur sculptures were created by James Q. Sidwell who also did the dinos for the Prehistoric Forest in Marblehead, Ohio and Dinosaur Land in White Post, Virginia.
All this could be yours for the low, low price of $548,000!
Photo by AgilityNut
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The Reed School for Nervous and Backward Children (1906)
The University of Washington Libraries has a very interesting collection of over 450 print advertisements in local magazines, city directories, and theater pamphlets of the Pacific Northwest from 1867 – 1918.
I’m particularly intrigued with this one: The Reed School of Nervous and Backward Children (1906). The ad noted:
The "family physician" notes that this school is not for the exploitation of any "fad" in child training, but is open to the acceptance of the latest developments in its line of work which have received scientific approval.
The parent notes the truly "homelike" atmosphere which is present, as indicated by the entire absence of anything "institutional."
The school was in Detroit, Michigan, and was conducted by Mrs. Frank A. Reed. According to The Handbook of Private Schools (1920) by Porter Sargent:
"Instruction is given in manual and physical training, vocal and instrumental music, drawing, painting, and the usual school subjects. The School for Stuttering and Stammering at the same address is entirely separate"
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That’s right, delicious and nutritious beavers are returning to the Detroit River after being gone for decades. This is an encouraging sign that efforts to clean up the waterways are working. See, it’s not all almost-free homes and urban blight.
(I made up the stuff about beavers being delicious and nutritious)
The Detroit Free Press reports that a beaver lodge has been discovered in an intake canal at a Detroit Edison riverfront plant. Officials believe the beaver spotted by the utility’s motion-sensitive camera marks the animal’s return to the river for the first time in at least 75 years.
(Photo: Detroit Edison)
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