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

1. The longest car in the world (100 ft long, 26 wheels, jacuzzi & diving board, king-sized water bed & helicopter pad) It was called “The American Dream”, built by California custom car guru Jay Ohrberg… began life in the late 1980s at Ohrberg’s Hollywood Cars shop. Ohrberg selected a golden 1970s Cadillac Eldorado as a…

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

1. Purse Lost in the 1950s Becomes an Unexpected Time Capsule In 2019, a custodian at the North Canton Middle School was repairing lockers when he discovered a bag wedged behind a piece of detachable metal. Although dusty and dirty, the contents of the purse were well preserved. They belonged to Patti Rumfola who lost the purse…

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

Welcome to a special edition of 13 Things to kick off Black History Month and LGBT History Month… 1. The U.S. Army’s 1st & only ever bicycle division, the 25th Infantry Bicycle Corps in 1897 In June of 1897, the all-black company of the 25th Mobile Infantry, under command of a white lieutenant and accompanied by a…

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

1. Castle Ashby Orangery Built in 1872 near Northampton, UK. Photos via here and here. Visit the Castle Ashby Gardens website here.  2. Iconic French Art Nouveau house to Reopen to Public Villa Majorelle, the famed Art Nouveau residence in Nancy, France, will soon reopen to the public. Found on Curbed. 3. Just a little Hat…

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

1. John Holliday Perry’s Private Underwater Habitat John Holliday Perry started diving at a time that he called a few years B.C., Before Cousteau developed the aqualung. He built most of the submarines for the James Bond movie Thunderball, and kept a few for his own use on a private island in the Bahamas. At…

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

1. Arco Magno, Italy Photographed by Simone Bramante. Reachable by a hike. GPS co-ordinates: 39.8549° N, 15.7921° E. 2. Moon Trees Dozens of so-called “moon trees” scattered around the country, grown from seeds that traveled with astronaut Stuart Roosa on the Apollo 14 mission in 1971… the arboreal oddities were almost lost to history. Want to know…

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

1. Louisiana’s Louis XV Tower In the heart of Louisiana, the antiques dealer Robert E. Smith’s home — a Louis XV fever dream — is surrounded by a moat and fronted by a pair of 300-year-old giant live oak trees. The 66-foot-high, five-story, sanded-concrete tower, which sits on 13 acres, features one large room per…

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

1. The Carson Mansion Considered the most grand Victorian home in America, located in Old Town, Eureka, California, regarded as one of the highest executions of American Queen Anne Style architecture. Check out the upstairs hallway. It is one of the most written about and photographed Victorian houses in California and perhaps also in the…

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

1. Mystery £50m Gustav Klimt masterpiece found hidden in a wall A Gustav Klimt painting stolen 23 years ago from the Ricci Oddi modern art gallery in Italy might just have been discovered in the unlikeliest of places—inside the walls of the gallery itself. A gardener was recently clearing ivy from the building’s walls, the…

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

1. Cowboy Car Hops, Dallas, Texas, 1940 A woman from Oak Cliff (a Dallas neighborhood) made a complaint that she did not want to look at girls’ legs when she stopped by her local drive-in; she wanted to look at men’s legs. Drive-in owners thought that this was a great idea, and soon the idea of the…
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