Mexican drug lord "El Chapo" is beloved in his homeland, Sinaloa, for bringing jobs and investing back into the state.
https://www.chron.com/crime/article/...an-6386265.php
Michael Phelps' training breakfast consisted of an omelette, porridge, three slices of French toast, three egg sandwiches and three pancakes.
https://www.indy100.com/article/what...st--W1c1QQQ4vZ
Mexican drug lord "El Chapo" is beloved in his homeland, Sinaloa, for bringing jobs and investing back into the state.
https://www.chron.com/crime/article/...an-6386265.php
Anyone over 14 can drive a VSP car in France without a licence.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-35210572
Charles Darwin Ate Every Animal He Discovered.
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/12/04...harles-darwin/
The United States paid US$25 million in gold for the Virgin Islands in 1917.
https://2001-2009.state.gov/r/pa/ho/time/wwi/107293.htm
The British Standards Institution has a 5,000 word report on the correct way to make a cup of tea.
https://www.theguardian.com/uk/1999/oct/02/10
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From the 1920s to the 1980s, strange adverts were spotted on billboards and the sides of British buses, which read: ‘Crime, banditry, distress and perplexity will increase until the bishops open Joanna Southcott’s box.
Those in the know understood that Joanna Southcott’s box – the antithesis of Pandora’s – contained the secrets of humanity’s future happiness; once opened, the problems of the world would dissolve. Two hundred years since its creation, however, the box remains unopened..... .
Having correctly predicted the Napoleonic War and two famines, Southcott amassed a loyal following and came to believe she was ‘the woman of the apocalypse’ as described in Revelations. Such was her confidence that Southcott would occasionally send her prophecies in sealed containers to different holy men and ask if they could be opened in a few months’ time, effectively goading them to give her marks out of ten for accuracy.
Southcott’s name would have faded into obscurity were it not for the legacy of her box. Before her death, Southcott had presented a large wooden box to her followers. Not only did the mysterious locked box contain important prophecies, but the act of opening it would herald the return of Christ and a thousand years of peace. The opening of the box, however, came with a caveat – it required the presence of 24 Church of England bishops who needed to pray for the box for three days solid.
The Panacea Society finally came into possession of Joanna Southcott’s box and continued its campaign for the bishops’ visit, but to no avail. When its last member died in 2012, a Trust took over and turned two of the houses into museums. A replica of Southcott’s box remains, surrounded by 24 empty chairs. To this day, no one seems entirely sure if the real box was ever opened or, for that matter, where it is now. The Trust claim that it’s stored under lock and key in a secret place, but can the Trust be trusted?
https://www.idler.co.uk/article/book...the-mysterium/
15,000 billboards were taken down in 2006 when Sao Paulo, Brazil, banned outdoor advertising.
In 2011, Hugh Hefner saved the iconic 'HOLLYWOOD' sign by donating the final $900,000 needed to buy the land before being bought by mansion developers.
https://people.com/tv/hugh-hefner-sa...ollywood-sign/
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The Romans sent boughs of Holly and gifts to their friends during Saturnalia, a custom which early Christians adopted despite controversy....though an edict of the Church of Bracara once forbid Christians to decorate their homes with holly because of its origins as a Pagan practice.
On the outskirts of Rome...in the Alban Hills....is a town called Nemi, it overlooks Lake Nemi, a volcanic crater lake named Diana's Mirror (Speculum Dianae)....where emperors once sailed into, to assert themselves as Stars
The town's name derives from the Latin nemus, or "Holy Wood". In antiquity the area had no town, but the grove was the site of one of the most famous of Roman cults and temples: The Temple of Diana Nemorensis,