@edgarblythe,
A vertical studio apartment? That's kind of neat! Though it seems to be missing the shower...
. And that little corner with the green bean bag is effectively unreachable.
Hopefully the rent is really really really low as well.
Where did you find about it Edgar?
@JTT,
JTT wrote:
There's a picture at the link.
Quote:Check out the skinniest house in the world
There are skinny houses. And then there is Jakub Szczęsny's Keret House, which could make Calista Flockhart look like a fatty. At its most generous, the proposed place, in Warsaw, Poland, will clock in at 4 feet wide. At its narrowest, it'll be just 28 inches wide -- thinner than the average doorway. And we complain about the sardine cans in New York...
The house (officially an "art installation," because it doesn't meet Polish building code) is slated to fill a crack between a pair of buildings in Warsaw's Wola district. When construction's finished in December, it'll be the thinnest house in Warsaw and possibly the whole world. We did a quick Google search and couldn't find anything leaner.
http://ca.finance.yahoo.com/news/Check-skinniest-house-world-yahoofinanceca-3675482829.html
This article connects the picture of the "studio apartment."
@edgarblythe,
Thanks for adding the picture, Edgar.
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Quote:Buford, Wyoming: Population of one
By Nadine Bells | Good News – Thu, 21 Jul, 2011
There are small towns, and then there's Buford.
By definition, Buford is the smallest — or at least tied for smallest — town in the world. It has one resident, 60-year-old Don Sammons.
Buford is also the highest town in elevation on Interstate 80, sitting at a height 8,000 feet.
While the town hasn't always been this empty, it's never been large. Founded in 1866, railway workers once made up a population of nearly 2,000. Like many railway towns, "Buford nearly withered away," 9news reports.
Sammons moved to the tiny town in 1980 with his wife and son. Now a widowed empty-nester, the popular self-titled "Mayor of Buford" runs the town's only store, the Buford Trading Post, which draws an impressive 1,000 customers daily.
"I get so many people by the end of the day, it's nice to just have some quiet time when I get home," Sammons told 9news. "For a population of one, there's a lot going on."
"I don't know what's going to happen when I decide to retire," Sammons told NBC.
http://ca.news.yahoo.com/blogs/good-news/buford-wyoming-population-one-185944882.html
Footage reveals how African crested rat applies poison
BBC News - 1 hour ago
A species of rat has evolved an ingenious method to foil any predators that try to eat it, scientists report. This footage reveals how the African crested rat chews the roots and bark of a highly toxic tree, and then smears the lethal mixture on its ...
Alligator sighting puts Ontario town on edge
By Megan Abraham, QMI Agency
STIRLING, ONT. - Ron Main isn't afraid to hunt down a local urban legend.
The resident of this eastern Ontario community northwest of Belleville set out last Thursday to find the village's very own Lochness Monster — an alligator rumoured to have made its home in the Mill Pond.
Main said he first heard the gator tale from a relative.
"He said 'there's an alligator in the Mill Pond' and I said 'Yeah … OK'," said Main, who didn't believe it.
"I thought it was a turtle … I thought maybe it was a log," he said. "Me being who I am, I had to investigate."
The first time Main caught a glimpse of the reptile, it quickly swam away. But late last Thursday morning, after having taken a few trips down to the pond, Main says he spotted the little critter near an island upstream from the pond in some shallow water.
Main, an avid fisherman, said he knew when the temperature had dropped a bit that if there was a gator, he would be hiding in the shallow water.
"I just followed him. And that's where he was," Main said in an interview Monday. "I had my camera zoomed right in, I was sort of behind a tree. I was there about 10 minutes."
He described the gator as about three feet long, and said he's been told it's a species called a caiman.
Main said this is not the first time he has captured an elusive animal on film. He has also taken pictures of a cabbit — a mix between a rabbit and a cat — and an albino muskrat.
Main said he's thinking about calling the Ministry of Natural Resources to let them know about the alligator, and speculated that someone may have dropped the animal off at the pond.
"The poor thing's gonna die come fall, it's really a shame," he said.
Police Chief Brian Foley said police will be following up on the sighting.
Although officers who saw the photo have been somewhat skeptical of its authenticity, Foley said, he certainly "won't treat this as a hoax."
"We'll be doing our due diligence," he said.
Foley said the area in which Main says he captured the alligator on film is one where children often can be found swimming.
Until there is more information, he said, residents should be cautious and keep an eye out.
Alligators are not native to Ontario.
"Be very careful around the pond," he said.
@JTT,
I initially thought that DB Cooper didn't ask for all that much money but inflation does take its toll.
"Equivalent to over $1,100,000 in 2011 USD."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/D._B._Cooper
@Reyn,
Checked cabbit on Snopes. They used the word fictive to describe it and put it in the same category as the jackelope.
Great oddities. I recall Jacob Waltz and his lost Dutchman's gold mine, too.
Another oddity.
SAN ANTONIO — The prolonged drought in Texas has revealed what NASA says is a tank from the space shuttle Columbia, which broke apart over east Texas as it re-entered the atmosphere in 2003.
Greg Sowell, a police sergeant in the city of Nacogdoches, which is located about 160 miles (250 kilometers) northeast of Houston, said the waters of Lake Nacogdoches, which are falling due to the record drought which has gripped the state, revealed an unexpected object.
"We found a large, about four-foot-diameter, round, what appears to be a tank of some sort," Sowell said Tuesday. "We have reason to believe this may be a part of the Columbia space shuttle."
I saw that story on the local news, letty.
PBS
This Day in History: 165 years ago today, the Donner Party finds a note warning them to change route. The emigrants' fateful journey culminated in death and cannibalism in the snows of Sierra Nevada. Examine where they went wrong with American Experience's interactive map.
WGBH American Experience . The Donner Party . Map (Interactive) | PBS
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Click on the numbers for more information on this map of the Donner Party’s route from Independence, Missouri to Sutter’s Fort, California...
@edgarblythe,
Couldn't find the numbers upon which to click, edgar.
T Rex of the seas.
http://www.livescience.com/15312-mosasaurs-marine-reptiles-predators-gallery.html
@edgarblythe,
edgarblythe wrote:
Checked cabbit on Snopes. They used the word fictive to describe it and put it in the same category as the jackelope.
Well, who's the smarty pants now, huh?
Interesting story, Letty. I haven't heard it before.
@Letty,
I clicked on your link earlier, but could not get through, letty. This time I saw the story and picture. I bet Captain Ahab would have chased one of those.
A teenage boy had just passed his driving test and inquired of his father as to when they could discuss his use of the car.
His father said he'd make a deal with his son, "You bring your grades up from a C to a B average, study your Bible a little, and get your hair cut. Then we'll talk about the car."
The boy thought about that for a moment, decided he'd settle for the offer and they agreed on it.
After about six weeks his father said, "Son, I see you've brought your grades up and I've observed that you have been studying your Bible, but I'm disappointed you haven't had your hair cut."
The boy said, "You know, Dad, I've been thinking about that, and I've noticed in my studies of the Bible, that Samson had long hair, John the Baptist had long hair, Moses had long hair, and there's even strong evidence that Jesus had long hair."
The father thought for a moment and said: "Did you also notice they all walked everywhere they went?"
Saturday would have been Lucille Ball's 100th birthday.
