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alabasterwilliams t1_iu5ajs2 wrote
Reply to comment by turtmcgirt in Unusual 120-Year-Old Whaleback Shipwreck Discovered in Lake Superior by ArtOak
Imma shout out Big Pete Road, Twin Falls and the mighty sandstone boulder that rocks back and forth with the waves.
You familiar?
alabasterwilliams t1_iu5ae5t wrote
Reply to comment by rmorrin in Unusual 120-Year-Old Whaleback Shipwreck Discovered in Lake Superior by ArtOak
Something like 8 inches, didn’t last though.
It was quite beautiful!
truemcgoo t1_iu5aaj3 wrote
Reply to comment by Quorro in Unusual 120-Year-Old Whaleback Shipwreck Discovered in Lake Superior by ArtOak
It’s third largest by volume and largest by surface area…I grew up a stones throw from Lake Superior literally had to learn this in elementary school, not trying to be a dick just immediately popped in my head. Lake Superior is a beast, I’ve done all sorts of stupid things in and around that lake, it’s come close to killing me twice, probably my favorite place in the world.
alabasterwilliams t1_iu5a376 wrote
Reply to comment by Quorro in Unusual 120-Year-Old Whaleback Shipwreck Discovered in Lake Superior by ArtOak
Well, no. Close though!
It’s the largest by surface area. Third largest by volume.
Lake Baikal in Russia holds more water than the Great Lakes, I believe.
It’s like looking out over the ocean.
MalteseFalcon7 t1_iu594sl wrote
Reply to comment by tell_her_a_story in Unusual 120-Year-Old Whaleback Shipwreck Discovered in Lake Superior by ArtOak
I'm pretty sure the singer is Edmund Fitzgerald, about a ship name Gordon Lightfoot, and the Mighty Fitz is an album by Fitz and the Tantrums... jk
Very haunting song, and history though.
tell_her_a_story t1_iu58ihv wrote
Reply to comment by MalteseFalcon7 in Unusual 120-Year-Old Whaleback Shipwreck Discovered in Lake Superior by ArtOak
The ship is the Edmund Fitzgerald, "The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald" is a song about the ship by Gordon Lightfoot. "The Mighty Fitz" is a book about the loss of the ship, Edmund Fitzgerald.
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Quorro t1_iu588bg wrote
Reply to comment by FrankGrimesApartment in Unusual 120-Year-Old Whaleback Shipwreck Discovered in Lake Superior by ArtOak
Largest lake in the world by volume! It can hold the water of every other great lake combined.
CandyCoatedDinosaurs t1_iu55reo wrote
Reply to comment by BattleBlitz in Unusual 120-Year-Old Whaleback Shipwreck Discovered in Lake Superior by ArtOak
It's an autobiography.
helenata t1_iu54xr9 wrote
Reply to comment by Shattered_Visage in Unusual 120-Year-Old Whaleback Shipwreck Discovered in Lake Superior by ArtOak
Just a lovely place with a great beach!!
MalteseFalcon7 t1_iu549z2 wrote
Reply to comment by BattleBlitz in Unusual 120-Year-Old Whaleback Shipwreck Discovered in Lake Superior by ArtOak
I think it's a song, actually.
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CBalsagna t1_iu53s4b wrote
Reply to comment by maarzian in Unusual 120-Year-Old Whaleback Shipwreck Discovered in Lake Superior by ArtOak
As a clevelander, I’m a fan of that story and that beer! Shame so many lost their lives but that story is what started my interest in shipwrecks and the Great Lakes. To anyone unfamiliar they are right!
FrankGrimesApartment t1_iu538o7 wrote
Just looked it up, had no clue Lake Superior went to 1300 feet deep.
BattleBlitz t1_iu533yk wrote
Reply to comment by maarzian in Unusual 120-Year-Old Whaleback Shipwreck Discovered in Lake Superior by ArtOak
I don’t think it’s by Edmund Fitzgerald I believe that’s the ship the book is about.
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maarzian t1_iu4z2fl wrote
Reply to comment by CBalsagna in Unusual 120-Year-Old Whaleback Shipwreck Discovered in Lake Superior by ArtOak
You might enjoy “The mighty Fitz” by Edmund Fitzgerald, I didn’t grow up near the lakes and don’t know much about them but really enjoyed the book!
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rmorrin t1_iu4x3jd wrote
Reply to comment by spdougherty in Unusual 120-Year-Old Whaleback Shipwreck Discovered in Lake Superior by ArtOak
Naw just getting far more climate crazy. The world will be FINE. humans tho? Maybe not so much
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nola_throwaway53826 t1_iu4vxbz wrote
Reply to comment by VLenin2291 in Bookclub Wednesday! by AutoModerator
I would recommend A World Undone by G J Meyer. I personally find it to be one of the best single volume histories of World War 1, and the way he does an insert of background information as he tells the history never feels like its interrupting and was a great way to get a clearer picture of what was going on. For instance, he is talking about the Balkans, and Serbia in particular. He inserts a quick bit of background with a brief history of Serbia at that point. And it's not a footnote either, it's a couple of pages, and then back to what he was originally talking about.
spdougherty t1_iu4vu31 wrote
Reply to comment by rmorrin in Unusual 120-Year-Old Whaleback Shipwreck Discovered in Lake Superior by ArtOak
Jeez, they got snow already and it’s been 70 degrees in PA. The world is ending.
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Shattered_Visage t1_iu4qrkj wrote
Reply to comment by helenata in Unusual 120-Year-Old Whaleback Shipwreck Discovered in Lake Superior by ArtOak
Grand Marais might be one of the best small towns in the country.
GothWitchOfBrooklyn t1_iu5brot wrote
Reply to Unusual 120-Year-Old Whaleback Shipwreck Discovered in Lake Superior by ArtOak
I visited the GL shipwreck museum this summer on a vacation through the UP, it was awesome