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grammarpedant · 14 days ago

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Oh it's that fucking thing! It used to be one of my talking points when I gave tours at the State House. Its fishy counterpart is a brass casting in State Senate's chandelier, sometimes called the Holy Mackerel.

Every day I learn something baffling about Massachusetts

#it was cod-napped twice in known history #once by the Harvard Lampoon in an absurd caper and second by UMass to later turn up in a broom closet #other facts is that the tip of the golden dome is set as boston's center. so if it says 10 miles to Boston #it's 10 miles to the golden dome's center. which is topped by a golden pinecone btw #og State House designed by Charles Bulfinch. there's a room in there added later #big long thing with a glass ceiling marble floors and stone walls #that was SO abysmally echoey when it was completed that it was impossible to hold events in there.#so they had to drape the whole thing with flags- hundreds jutting out from the walls every few feet- to muffle the acoustics #i was not a real docent to be clear i was one of the high schoolers in the junior tour guide program #it was pretty cool #massachusetts #massachusettsposting #queue

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