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<main>
  <header>
    <b>open<br />almanac</b><span>A SHARED NOTEBOOK<br />OF ORDINARY WONDERS.</span
    ><button id="change" aria-pressed="false">Reading mode</button>
  </header>
  <div class="wiki">
    <aside>
      <h2>CONTENTS</h2>
      <a href="#overview">Overview</a><a href="#habitat">Habitat</a
      ><a href="#observation">Observation</a><a href="#notes">Notes</a>
    </aside>
    <article>
      <div class="article-heading">
        <span>NATURAL WORLD / FIELD NOTES</span>
        <h1 id="overview">The common fern</h1>
        <p>A patient lesson in unfurling.</p>
      </div>
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        <figcaption>A stylized study, not an identification guide.</figcaption>
      </figure>
      <p>
        Ferns make a quiet kind of architecture. A frond begins as a compact curve and slowly opens
        into a repeating arrangement of smaller shapes.
      </p>
      <h2 id="habitat">Habitat</h2>
      <p>
        Many ferns favor sheltered, damp places. A shaded wall, a woodland edge or the space beside
        a stream can hold an entire miniature landscape.
      </p>
      <h2 id="observation">A small observation</h2>
      <p>
        Look at the pattern before the individual leaf. Repetition, spacing and the direction of
        light tell a story that is easy to miss at first glance.
      </p>
      <div id="notes" class="note">
        <b>EDITOR'S NOTE</b>
        <p>
          Original illustrative prose for a wiki layout demonstration. Do not use it to identify or
          consume plants.
        </p>
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