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Month: August 2024

We Used to Have Parrots

Posted on August 14, 2024October 15, 2024 by Robert Francis

At the northern tip of Kentucky there’s a mineral spring called Big Bone Lick. Some of the earliest Europeans to arrive at the spring found massive bones sticking out of the mud, left by enormous animals that had evidently gotten stuck while licking up the salty water that the spring brought to the surface (to…

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