February 13, 2026
Tag: shot towers
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Shot Towers
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Is it some sort of munitions testing facility? Why build it in downtown Baltimore? There’s a reason for everything, and then I found out there were lots of them, and some are still around, almost 200 years and several technological revolutions later.
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February 9, 2023 4 Comments
There was a movie (1949, I think) and then a television show about a naked city and the stories of its people. In this story the people are real and the facts are true, but everything about the featured postcards is wonky and weird. It’s one of the eight-million stories.