The Real Backstory (As Opposed To Several Fake Ones) on Dallas’s Reunion Tower (Who was St. Remedius? And why is a medical college named after him?) “Is it a spaceship?” That question comes up regularly involving that most distinctive of Dallas skyline landmarks, Reunion Tower. For the greater part of a half-century, North Texas’s most distinctive phallic symbol hunkers over the Trinity River, giving tourists and residents alike light shows from its main…
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St. Remedius Medical College: “Kaiju Wipeout”
When Kaiju Breeding Migrations, Instagrammers, and Kirby Suits Collide (Who was St. Remedius? And why is a medical college named after him?) For the previous five centuries, the kaiju of Texas slept. They slept in the muds at the bottom of the Gulf of Mexico, slowly metabolizing leaking oil and the radioactive traces therein. They slept within massive caverns in the central Hill Country, breathing in carbon dioxide released as trickling rainwater eroded…
St. Remedius Medical College: "The St. Remedius Bromley Contingent"
Not All Heroes Wear a St. Remedius Class Ring (Who was St. Remedius? And why is a medical college named after him?) 100 meters (328 feet) long. 60 meters (196 feet) high. A rough resemblance to an armadillo, but more like a glyptodont, complete with a club tail covered in spikes. Tank treads instead of hind feet. Biomechanical claws peeking out from underneath a synthesis of flexible organic and metallic armor. A pair…