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In Memory of the Real-Life Marge Simpson

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Matt Groening is the American cartoonist behind the successful television series, The Simpsons. A recent article in a Portland, Oregon obituary for a certain Margaret Ruth Groening has revealed a few familiar names, including her husband Homer and her children, Matt, Lisa and Maggie. via Reddit ::: YOU MIGHT ALSO LIKE: .

Salvatore Ferragamo and his Celebrity Feet

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In 1914, sixteen year old Salvatore undertook the long journey to the United States to live with one of his brothers who worked at a cowboy boot factory in Boston (a cowboy boot factory in Boston?!). The eager young Ferragamo went to the factory to learn more about the art of making footwear. The modern [...]

The Crooked House

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I just spent a wonderful weekend back in my hometown of London, England, where I enjoyed finding my way again through little mews streets and admiring the quaint houses painted in pastels. This unusual house in Windsor, just outside of London is a tea room, appropriately known as the “Crooked House”. Built in 1592, the house [...]

The Red Forest

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Red pepper drying in Hungary, 1968 A little info about Hungarian peppers from Garden.org: A visit to the grocer in Budapest, Hungary, puts an American shopper in a vastly different world of peppers. The typical Hungarian shopper could hardly pass a grocery store without stopping to pick up several of these white peppers to take [...]

Anarchitecture by Richard Greaves

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“La Cabande du Sucre”, built by Richard Greaves in Quebec. “I don’t like concrete. A tree moves and also I’m silent. With a nail or a saw. you’d know I was there. I am like a raccoon” – Richard Greaves Greaves makes inhabitable structures out of garbage that look pretty impressive if not confusing. Having [...]

Shark observes an Underwater Ping Pong Match

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(c) Bettmann/Corbis. The New Yorker magazine put together a slideshow of historical exercise photos. The bizarre line-up includes this underwater ping pong match (being observed by a sand shark at the marine studios in Orlando, Florida, 1947), playing golf in medieval armour and making the bed on one leg. See the full slideshow here. ::: YOU MIGHT ALSO [...]

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