Monthly Archives: May 2022

Humans arrive in Missouri (Saint Louis and Me supplement two)

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Paleoindian life – a brief summary. By now, regular readers of this blog should have some idea of the time and manner in which the earliest humans arrived on the American continents from a post such as this one so …

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Saint Louis (well, Missouri) in the time before humans (Saint Louis and Me supplement one)

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There’s no place like dome. It’s my hope that those of you who have read through much of this blog have become familiar with much of the terminology associated with understanding the geologic forces that have shaped our planet over …

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The marathon of the Saint Louis Olympics (Saint Louis and Me addendum two)

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When I began looking for the noteworthy stories from the III Olympiad, I had no idea what I’d find. Every Olympics has its particular set of anecdotes and narrative but I didn’t expect to see so many odd elements arise …

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