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Forgotten Glamour at Mermaid City

Girls would come from as far as Tokyo to audition for the chance to be a Weeki Wachee mermaid in the 1960s. They performed to sold-out crowds; half a million people a year came to watch their dazzling underwater shows, including the King himself, Elvis Presley. They took etiquette and ballet lessons and they were treated…

Flying Water Taxis are coming to Paris this Summer

Lo and behold, flying machines straight out of a Jetsons cartoon are set to become a reality. Think Uber but as a boat which hovers above the water– so basically, a flying boat taxi, right here along the Paris Seine River.. Alain Thébault and Anders Bringdal, who together broke the record for speed on a flying sailboat that…

The Wonderful Lost World of Mr. Hendy

Number 36 High Street in Hastings, England, started out its very long life as a soda-bottling shop. During the restoration of this 18th century grade II listed Georgian town house, they unearthed bullet-shaped soda bottles under the floorboards. According to records, it was later a saddlers in the 19th century, then a tailor, a sweet shop, a…

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

1. Did you hear about the Colossal 3,000-Year-Old Statue just Discovered Under a Cairo Slum? Archaeologists in Cairo believe they have uncovered parts of a temple of Pharaoh Ramses II, including an eight-metre-high statue. Experts are already calling it “one of the most important discoveries ever” that tell an ancient story of the world’s origins, and could start…

They Built a Luxury Marble Palace for Horses in China

When I first stumbled upon this photograph, I thought it was photoshopped, or some kind of practical joke involving horses horsing around in the lobby of a luxury hotel (see what I did there?). Alas, the internet is not trying to fool us, this is indeed an actual marble-floored horse stable that exists in China as…

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

1. A Collection of Rare Photos of Men in the 1800s in Surprisingly Intimate Embraces In 2008, Columbia University librarian Herbert Mitchell passed away, bequeathing a trove of curios to the Metropolitan Museum of Art, featuring daguerreotypes, tintypes and ambrotypes of men “enjoying intimate physical contact without any evident trace of the self-consciousness one might…

The Interwar Gender-Bending Glamour of the Beach Pyjama

Before the bikini, fashionable ladies donned “beach pyjamas” all along the world’s most stylish coastal towns. The swishy palazzo-like pants and jumpsuit styles shocked the public in the interwar years, while we, on the other side of the second millennium, find some serious beach-going inspiration. But what made the “beach pyjama” so shocking? As with…

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

1. The Abbey Road Recording Console used by Pink Floyd is For Sale An Abbey Road Studios EMI TG12345 MK IV recording console used between 1971-1983, housed in Studio 2, the console which Pink Floyd used to record their landmark album, The Dark Side of the Moon. Also used by many other artists including: Paul…

The Coziest Bus Stop in Britain, Made by a Mystery Guerrilla Homemaker

For the residents of a small village in Dartmoor, England, the universally-dreaded morning commute to work is now very much something to look forward to. Last summer, the village of Walkhampton woke up to find their grim and graffiti-covered bus stop had been transformed into a welcoming living room, complete with an armchair, pillows, framed pictures, potted…

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

1. The Gritty History of the Elk Hotel, One of Times Square’s Last Pay-By-the-Hour Hotels In February 2012, the Elk Hotel shuttered for good after nearly 90 years in business. Formerly one of the last hourly hotels in Times Square, the seedy flophouse has garnered a rather notorious reputation over the years. Of the three…

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