There are many spirits and gods of the ancient world that everybody knows. Odin, Zeus, Poseidon, Ra, and Quetzalcoatl are all names you’ve definitely heard. What connects these well-known deities is that they’re all somehow heroic. Odin was the Norse king of the gods, Zeus hurled his thunderbolts, Quetzalcoatl created mankind, and so forth. But …
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A Texas mother received a notification she wasn’t expecting on Monday. She was rightly confused. Kelsey Golden got a message from DoorDash saying her order would be taking a bit longer due to the unusually high amount of items within the order. What had happened was, her son, Barrett, placed an order at McDonald’s for …
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This car house was constructed by innovator Terry Gonzalez of the Austin-area. It’s a mobile home in the literal sense, but not what you’d normally think of. Made by himself, Gonzalez’s home sits on top of his sedan. He shared his story while parked at the corner of Barton Springs Road and Lamar Boulevard. “How …
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Picture this scenario — you’re traveling on a plane when the pilot suddenly loses consciousness. What would you do? A man on a plane from the Bahamas to Florida faced this situation on May 10. The pilot had a medical emergency and passed out, leaving nobody qualified to pilot the plane onboard. The passenger promptly …
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It took a bit, but all parties eventually reached a deal. The Germans would take Dennis back, but he would make a stop first to be displayed at San Antonio Museum of Art for about a year. “He’s been hidden for 70 to 80 years; I think he deserves some attention,” Young said. “And I …
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While at a Goodwill in Austin Texas, Laura Young found a bust under a table with a yellow price tag. “Clearly antique—clearly old,” Young, who runs her own business as an antiques dealer was intrigued. The price tag was haphazardly affixed to the busts right cheek. The tag read $34.99 and it seemed like a …
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You can make great finds at second-hand and thrift stores. But this Texas woman’s Goodwill purchase puts every deal you’ve ever found to shame. Laura Young, from Austin, purchased a nice marble bust for $35 in 2018. What neither she nor the store realized at the time was that the bust was actually a 2,000-year-old …
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Everybody loves a good conspiracy theory, even if you don’t believe in them. It’s just fun to see all the strange ways people think the powers that be are toying with us. After all, conspiracy theories are all just made up by people with too much imagination and time… Right? Most of the time, perhaps. …
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In any war, you will, unfortunately, see brutality from all sides. But stealing a little girl’s birthday cake? That’s just too much. Yet it’s exactly what U.S. soldiers did in Italy in 1945. While fighting German troops in the village of San Pietro, unknown American soldiers came across a cake left on a farmhouse’s windowsill. …
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One day, life on Earth will end. All humans, animals, plants, and even microbes will die, and there’ll be nothing left but a sterile rock floating in the void. Of course, that hasn’t happened yet (as far as we know). But that just fuels people’s curiosity about how exactly the world is going to end. …
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