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39.9612º N, 82.9988º W The Short North Arts District in Columbus, Ohio is centered around the beautiful brick and tree-lined High Street. It’s a vibrant thoroughfare, plentiful with restaurants and coffee shops, craft cocktails and wine bars, homemade ice cream, and no shortage of great shopping. In the spirit of a true haberdashery, Samson: A Men’s Emporium carries everything for the elegant, yet rustic man. He can leave with a Brackish feather bow tie fit for a dandy southern gentleman, a…

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Mercantiles

64.1265º N, 21.8174º W At the end of the long pier-like stretches off of Iceland’s capital there is a rock wall, not taller than me. On the other side of it, it’s a deep plunge to the Faxa bay—only a moderate bulwark from the mid-Atlantic. On this wintry day, the waters were low, winds calm, and the high noon light was soft and violet. As I neared the rock face a large sign of reclaimed wood with the words written…