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  • Beauty Amid a City of Rocks?
    Idaho

    Beauty Amid a City of Rocks?

    ByFrans Lambrechtsen November 3, 2018October 13, 2020
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    It’s hard to tell now, but there once was a time when I was really into rock climbing. As it happened, a good friend of mine was introducing me to the sport. He was “into it” (…and as far as I know, he still is). I was learning the sport at some of the well-known…

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  • Portrait of young Margaret Brown (née Tobin), later known as the Unsinkable Molly Brown
    Colorado

    The Unsinkable Molly Brown: Fact or Fiction?

    ByFrans Lambrechtsen October 20, 2018February 28, 2026
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    The mythical “Unsinkable Molly Brown” was actually…a real person.  She was known as Margaret (or Maggie) Brown. Margaret was born in July 1867 in Hannibal, Missouri, to John and Johanna Tobin.  In the mid-1880’s, two of her siblings moved to Leadville, Colorado. (Nowadays, Leadville is about a 2 hour drive up into the mountains behind…

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  • Why is the Grand Canyon so amazingly beautiful? (Arizona)
    Arizona

    Why is the Grand Canyon so amazingly beautiful? (Arizona)

    ByFrans Lambrechtsen March 5, 2018October 13, 2020
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    Why is the Grand Canyon so amazingly beautiful?  Let’s start with some adjectives and other descriptive words: vast, expansive, raw, erosion, carved, weather-worn, light, dark, awe-inspiring, shadows, canvas, jaw-dropping.  I’m sure we could add more. What made the beauty of the Grand Canyon?  Wind, water, and stone.  While the Earth has been pushing the land…

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