content: 2026-07-17 capture run — 26 finds across 9 productive sources

Shortlisted 11; review candidates: porcelain-room-aranjuez,
we-are-rewind-pink-floyd-cassette, best-made-sailors-knife.

Dedup caught 11 re-serves from 07-16 before writing, plus 2 items
re-served after being dropped on the bar yesterday (Samsung Music
Studio 5, Project AirLink pants) — dropped again on the same grounds.

Verification corrected the record on three finds: Gear Patrol's
Sailor's Knife hook was wrong (the century-old salvaged Cumarú is the
handle, pulled from the Panama Canal after 113 years under water — the
blade is new Robert Herder stainless); the Armenia "Donatello" is
studio-of, not autograph; the Transformers set is a September preorder.
Two vendor stats omitted as unverifiable. hock (A.Word.A.Day) dropped
on the alcohol rule despite a strong etymology story.

Amazon: 2 links added, 2 dropped on the same-model rule.
Sources: no maintenance changes; 3 Reddit subs held on 429 throttling
(not skipped — r/macapps succeeded from the same host). 2 new nominees.
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name: "Celestia"
subtitle: "The forested remains of an 1850s utopia deeded to God"
date: 2026-07-17
link: "https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/celestia"
linkText: "atlasobscura.com"
source: "Atlas Obscura"
topics: [travel-and-places, history-and-archives]
tags: [pennsylvania, ghost-town, history]
description: "In Laporte Township, Pennsylvania, Peter Armstrong's 1850s millennialist settlement Celestia collapsed after he deeded its land to God in 1864 — today it's mostly forest."
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Peter Armstrong founded Celestia in the 1850s as a mountaintop refuge for millennialists awaiting the end of the world, laying it out in a nine-block grid with the central lot reserved for Christ's return. In 1864 he deeded the land itself to "Almighty God and His heirs in Jesus Messiah" — an owner who never paid property taxes, so the county seized and sold it. What's there now is forest, a few old foundation lines, and a historical marker on Route 42; the town itself never really got built.