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The Da Vinci Notes

Da Vinci Notes 20: Shells on the Mountains and the Ashen Moon

The shells in our hills lie in pairs and in layers, and no flood of forty days put them there; and the dark part of the new moon shines with light thrown back by the earth.

Leonardo's Codex Leicester arguments that fossil shells were not carried by the Flood, and his explanation of the moon's ashen light as earthshine.

Leonardo da Vinci November 8, 2026 30 min

#Leonardo da Vinci #Da Vinci Notes #Codex Leicester #Fossils #Geology #Earthshine #Moon #History of science

Lone Star Magazine

Hidden Stills and Limestone Hills: The Moonshine Legacy of Glen Rose

How the cedar brakes, spring-fed waters, and petriﬁed wood buildings of Somervell County tell a wild Texas tale of survival and neighborly grit.

Pull up a chair by the smoker and rest your boots for a spell while we wander up to the limestone bluffs of the Paluxy River. Up in Glen Rose, the ancient rocks and thick cedar brakes hold the stories of stubborn folks who turned clear spring water and corn into legends during the hardest years of Prohibition.

Zenna LoneStar November 8, 2026 11 min

#Glen Rose #Paluxy River #Texas history #Prohibition #moonshine #Somervell County #Texas culture #Southern folklore #petrified wood #Southern hospitality