u/Sad_grandma1501

I just found a really interesting article which talks about a fairly recent scientific discovery and Baltimore sits right on top of it! It's called the Piedmont Resistor and it's basically a huge chunk of Pangaea.

When the supercontinent of Pangaea started to tear apart along what is now the east coast, magma flooded up through the crust and buried over a thousand mile strip of land under a 100 mile thick slab of volcanic rock. Some ended up under the newly forming Atlantic ocean, but apparently we're sitting on a large slab of that 200 million year old chunk of a lost continent!

Yeah, maybe it's not the Ravens, but it's pretty cool!

https://www.abovethenormnews.com/2026/05/15/lost-continent-buried-beneath-united-states/

There's a little more technical article here:

https://www.science.org/content/article/deep-earth-map-reveals-lost-u-s-continent

Wow, it's been 490 years today since Anne Boleyn was beheaded.

I've always had mixed feelings about her. On one hand, I understand she was probably innocent of the charges and more than likely the victim of Thomas Cromwell's famous machinations, but it seems like, at the very least, she manipulated Henry- a married man- into dumping his wife and triggered the break from the Catholic church, which resulted in the deaths and ruination of thousands of people.

I wish there was a way to know what she was really like.... was she good, bad, or somewhere in the middle? Was she kind to stray dogs and the poor? I try to take into account the misogyny and control young women were subjected to in that era and try to show her a little grace.

Rest in peace, Anne Boleyn.

Another feather to add to Baltimore's cap?

490 years today...