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13 Things I Found on the Internet Today Vol. (Vol. CCXCI)

1. A Welsh Island for sale (for less than an average one bedroom flat in London) The Grade-II listed fortification sits at the mouth of Milford Haven estuary and is on sale for £400,000. It was built between 1850 and 1852 to protect Britain from French invasion under the rule of Napoleon III. More info found on…

The Aladdin’s Cave of Vintage Adidas Found in a Dusty Old Shop in Buenos Aires

An incredible story landed in my email inbox this morning via the Guardian website. The Adidas product research team have shared their tale of how they came to discover an incredible treasure trove of vintage sneakers, stocked with countless styles thought lost forever by the sportswear brand; missing from their own archives. Piled high in dusty boxes from…

13 Things I Found on the Internet Today (Vol. CCXC)

1. An essential resource A few favourites from the glossary… AAin’t that a bite: that’s too badAngel: One who pays the billAnkle biter: childApple butter: smooth talk or flatteryAre you writing a book?: you’re asking too many questionsBBack seat bingo: making out with a girl in a carBad news: a person who rejects a beatnikBake…

The Groovy Imitation Bands of 1960s Japanese Rock

When the Beatles arrived in Japan in June of 1966, they caused as much pandemonium when they did when they triggered Beatlemania in the United States in 1964. A total of 8,400 policemen were mobilized for security at a cost of 90 million yen and more than 6,500 Japanese teenagers were taken into custody. They had been…

13 Things I Found on the Internet Today (Vol CCLXXXIX)

1. Morro Bay Antiques Located in California, it was an abandoned old diner for a while, thankfully, it’s now an antiques emporium. 2. Rotary telephone compacts, originally designed by Elsa Schiaparelli and Salvador Dali, 1935 Mass-produced in the 1950s. Found here. 3. Wedding between female lovers, circa 1900s Found on reddit. 4. Native…

Couple Buy an Abandoned French Chateau, Start a Blog to Share Their Journey

There are many reasons why you might start a blog, but documenting the revival of an 18th century neoclassical ruin seems like a pretty damn good reason if you ask me. In 2013, Australian husband & wife team Karina and Craig Waters purchased the Chateau de Gudanes, a decaying fairytale mansion in the Midi-Pyrénées that had…

My Hometown Masonic Lodge Turned Psychedelic Art House

Let this story be a lesson to you to never, ever underestimate how many wild secrets are hiding under your nose. Your own small town is probably hiding more treasures than an un-excavated pyramid—probably because no one thinks to look there. Where are you right now? Who built the building? Who owned it? What’s under…

They are the Chinese Restaurant Road Trippers

Do you get the feeling that everything on Instagram looks the same? You’re looking to find a connection; a story in that handheld device; but all you can ever seem to find is the empty equivalent of a birds eye shot of someone’s lunch? When something manages to make you feel something through that little…

The Queen Who Worked at Macy’s

Most princess stories involve finding Prince Charming and living happily ever after as king and queen of the castle. They don’t typically include a part about the princess working at Macy’s department store, but that’s what makes this princess story so great… Anne Antoinette Françoise Charlotte was born in Paris in 1923, the only daughter of Prince René of Bourbon-Parma and Princess…

We Need to Talk About Zeki Müren

It’s 1977, and Mick Jagger is sitting down for an intimate dinner in the port city of Bodrum, Turkey. He’s vacationing on the coast with Atlantic Records president Ahmet Ertegun, and about to meet the evening’s final — and most anticipated — guest: Turkey’s bedazzled, belly-dancing answer to Liberace; a man whose platform heels paved the way…

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