Courtesy: The Vintage News Apr 19, 2018 Max Eastern Photo A.Berger – . CC BY-SA 3.0 There is a flat, treeless plain east of Budapest, a lazy grassland of grazing horses and cattle and sheep, where wild storks swoop down into marshy wetlands along the Tisza River and distant mirages glisten in the sun. Somewhere on … Read more
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Long before she cooked French dishes on TV, Julia Child helped the CIA develop shark repellent
Courtesy: The Vintage News Jan 2, 2018 Goran Blazeski Photo Credit Lynn Gilbert – CC BY-SA 4.0 The war broke out, and I wanted to do something to aid my country in a time of crisis. I was too tall for the WACs and WAVES, but eventually joined the OSS and set out into the world … Read more
Lisbon’s Belem Tower: The era when Portuguese explorers were all the rage
Courtesy: The Vintage News Jan 3, 2018 Magda Origjanska In Lisbon, the Belem district is one the most picturesque areas in Portugal’s capital. Many great Portuguese explorers, such as Bartholomeu Dias, who rounded the Cape of Good Hope, Vasco De Gama, who discovered the sea route to India, and even Ferdinand Magellan started their voyages of … Read more
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May 18, 2018 by Paulo Coelho 1. “Never explain. Your friends won’t need it. And haters will continue to hate (because they also hate themselves).” – Paulo Coelho 2. “There is only one thing that makes a dream impossible to achieve: the fear of failure.” – Paulo Coelho 3. “You have to take risks. We will only understand … Read more
My sister’s email about HIPPIE
May 16, 2018 by Paulo Coelho From: Sonia Maria Coelho de Souza Date: Wed, 16/05/2018 at 2:03 PM Subject: “Hippie” exciting fantastic !!! Dear, Dear brother: I loved your book !!!!! I relive many stories of you. Mom calling me to work: Daughter your brother arrived !!!!! I went straight to see you. I hugged you, I kissed … Read more
Paleontologists identified a 16,000-year-old horse from the Ice Age found during a Utah family’s backyard renovation
Courtesy: The Vintage News May 8, 2018 E.L. Hamilton Photo: Thanksgiving Point You never know what you might turn up when you dig in your backyard, aside from bits of glass, rusty nails, and tulip bulbs. One couple in Utah undertaking a renovation project discovered what they thought was the skeleton of a cow. But it … Read more
Anne Boleyn’s bold, feminist, no-nonsense tendencies are what cost her her head
Courtesy: The Vintage News Dec 4, 2017 Brad Smithfield King Henry VIII’s second wife did not wish to be bossed around by the court. As one of the more controversial figures of the 16th century, Anne Boleyn, the Marquess of Pembroke, was a true fighter of her own cause. Although not exactly regarded as a feminist since she … Read more
