• SirSamuel@lemmy.world
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    4 months ago

    Ya gotta watch out for those lakes tho

    The lake, it is said, never gives up her dead / When the skies of November turn gloomy

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        Ask yes, the Cedar Point tragedy of 1869. 27 died, including a Habsburg and two Rockefellers. 42 others were missing and presumed dead. The Navy spent three months subduing the lake by beating it with oars. It was the fastest legislation passed since the DC Forest Incident in 1831