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Tulips aren’t native to Holland. The first Tulips were brought over from Istanbul (then known as Constantinople) by a horticulturalist named Carolus Clusius in 1593. But the scent, shape, and rarity of the flower soon caught on and quickly became a status symbol among wealthy Dutch residents. As with any popular commodity, the price started […]
November 18, 2014 Sovereign Valley Farm, Chile When the two young petty thieves, Rinconete and Cortadillo, came to Seville they were quickly censured for stealing. To their surprise, it wasn’t for the theft itself, but instead because they were not registered with the local thieves’ guild. In this upside-down world imagined by Miguel Cervantes, theft […]
Are you ready for this week’s absurdity? Here’s our Friday roll-up of the most ridiculous stories from around the world that are threats to your liberty, risks to your prosperity… and on occasion, inspiring poetic justice. An actual medical journal says whiteness is “a malignant, parasitic-like condition” “Whiteness is a condition one first acquires and […]
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