The Vintage News This is the biggest tree house in the world, located in Crossville, Tennessee. From start to finish it was a one man project. Horace Burgess, a local minister, is the man directly and solemnly responsible for this huge wooden structure. He said that while praying he had a vision in which God … Read more
The Vintage News Sep 6, 2018 Andrew Pourciaux Photo by Mirko Tobias Schäfer CC BY 2.0 Modern art often gets a reputation for being strange, obtuse and somewhat pretentious. Of course, this reputation isn’t entirely unearned. There have been plenty of strange and overblown pieces of art, sometimes selling for hundreds of thousands of dollars, all … Read more
The Vintage News Apr 5, 2018 Stefan Andrews The countries we come from, their names, are one of the most important ways we identify ourselves. But imagine if the current names of countries were replaced with versions conveying the literal meanings of the words. In an attempt to have some fun with the name of each … Read more
September 4, 2018 by Paulo Coelho In September 1970, two sites squared off for the title of the center of the world: Piccadilly Circus, in London, and Dam Square, in Amsterdam. But not everyone knew this: if you asked most people, they’d have told you: “The White House, in the US, and the Kremlin in the USSR.” … Read more
The Vintage News Jul 31, 2018 Nancy Bilyeau Time Bandits – Special Screening at BFI Southbank. (Photo by David M. Benett/Getty Images) Apple plans to turn Terry Gilliam’s 1981 fantasy film Time Bandits into a television series, according to a story reported on Deadline. The cult film follows an 11-year-old boy named Kevin as he’s chased by the “Supreme … Read more
The Vintage News Jun 11, 2018 Andrew Pourciaux (Photo by Gene Lester/Getty Images) When you think controversy, chances are you tend not to think about children’s books. After all, these books, with brightly colored pictures and clever rhyming schemes, are often designed to be as fun and inoffensive as possible. And while there might be the … Read more
