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Built in 1170, Loftus Hall is an architectural site to behold. The beautiful Georgian mansion in Fethard on Sea in Ireland’s County Wexford is now on sale for $2.87 million. Prospective buyers should take more than the 22 bedrooms into account, however — namely the local legend that it was once inhabited by the devil. According to The Smithsonian, it’s said that an 18th century card game at the historic property culminated in one of the players revealing his cloven hooves to the owner’s daughter. As the story goes, she was traumatized for the rest of her life — and her spirit has wandered the halls ever since. Loftus Hall’s most recent owners have...

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The industrial property prices and rents in Singapore respectively dropped at a swift pace of 1.1 and 0.7 percent quarter-on-quarter in the second quarter of 2020, reported JLL Singapore, citing the 2Q20 industrial property market data published by government agency JTC. In the report, the agency mentioned that the said figures are regarded as the biggest drop in prices and rents since 2017. These overall downturns occurred in spite of the 0.2 percentage quarter-on-quarter increase in the city-state’s industrial property occupancy rate to 89.4 percent in the second quarter of the year. The slight boost in occupancy rate is due to the fact that there weren’t a lot of completed...

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La Panza, a nearly 15,000-acre cattle and agricultural ranch in Santa Margarita, California, that produces its own brand of award-winning olive oil and that is said to once have been the hideout of the notorious outlaws Jesse and Frank James, is on the market for $38 million. The property, which is in the ranch-rich land of San Luis Obispo County, was listed Monday by Lance Doré of California Outdoor Properties and Matt and Dylan Marschall of CBRE Capital Markets. Mr. Doré said the seller built the main hacienda and created the compound, which is comprised of several buildings. “At 14,750 acres, it’s one of the largest contiguous tracts of lands in the western...

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We hardly perceive roads as anything else then a platform used by our cars to take us from Point A to point B. However, these roads often carry history with them, sometimes a sinister past that could send a shiver or two down your spine. Following is a brief list of some of the creepiest roads on the planet. A75 Kinmont Straight, South West Scotland Not your typical dangerous road, the A75 Kinmon Straight has been gaining a more sinister reputation over the years for its association with ghost sightings. There have been numerous reports of unexplained phenomenon and hauntings over the stretch of the road.The route is thus appropriately nicknamed the ghost road and attracts many...

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Three 15-year-old boys in Florida are reportedly in custody after inadvertently trespassing on Mar-a-Lago property while carrying an AK-47 as they tried to flee the police. The bizarre scene unfolded Friday around midnight when Palm Beach police noticed the teenagers parked in a Hyundai on a road about two miles from President Trump’s club, the Palm Beach Police Department told the local NBC affiliate. When police approached the vehicle, the driver took off, initiating a short car chase, according to the report. The teens eventually ditched their vehicle near Mar-a-Lago and allegedly carried a backpack containing the rifle as they fled onto the property. Club security found the...

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Facebook Inc on Wednesday took down a post by U.S. President Donald Trump, which the company said violated its rules against sharing misinformation about the coronavirus. The post contained a video clip, from an interview with Fox & Friends earlier in the day, in which Trump claimed that children are "almost immune" to COVID-19. "This video includes false claims that a group of people is immune from COVID-19, which is a violation of our policies around harmful COVID misinformation," a Facebook spokesman said. A tweet containing the video that was posted by the Trump campaign's @TeamTrump account and shared by the president was also later hidden by Twitter Inc for breaking its...

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Singapore's tally of dengue cases this year reached a record 22,403 on Wednesday (Aug 5), the highest recorded in a single year. With nearly five months to go before the end of the year, the number of dengue cases has surpassed the 22,170 recorded in 2013, which was the previous largest dengue outbreak in Singapore. In all, 20 people have died from dengue this year as of Aug 2, said the Ministry of Health (MOH). The youngest victim was 25 years old, while the oldest was 92 years old. Eighteen of the victims had worked or lived in active dengue clusters. MOH declined to provide details on the victims or the dengue clusters they had worked or lived in. The ministry said that about 0.2...

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The COVID-19 outbreak has prompted non-listed real estate investors to redistribute their assets from Japan and Australia to South Korea and China, reported Funds Global Asia, citing data from The Asian Association for Investors in Non-Listed Real Estate Vehicles (ANREV). Despite the continued demand for the region, their market sentiment survey uncovered that 75 percent of senior investors have thought of changing their investment plans. Around 53.3 percent shared that they have been looking into South Korea and China. On the other hand, only 33 percent responded that they wanted to increase their allocations in Australia and Japan, while 17 percent disclosed that they wanted to decrease...

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The Nine Mile Canyon is located deep in the Utah desert in the Western United States. It is known as “the world’s longest art gallery” because is filled with tens of thousands of petroglyphs and pictographs, some over a thousand years old. Most of the art was created by the Fremont culture and the Ute people. This unique canyon is an international treasure. The canyon is 40 miles long, so it’s not exactly clear why it’s called Nine Mile Canyon. The canyon became a main transport corridor in the region during the 1880s. In 1886, Nine Mile road was constructed through the canyon by the Buffalo Soldiers of the 9th Cavalry Regiment, linking Fort Duchesne to the...

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The prices of pre-owned homes in Hong Kong have come off their 10-month peak in June, as buyers shifted their attention to newly launched projects amid social-distancing measures during the city’s coronavirus relapse, forcing some desperate sellers to unload their lived-in property at losses. Five flats changed hands across 10 major housing estates in the city on Saturday and Sunday, the lowest weekend transaction rate in six months, according to data by Midland Realty, which operates one of Hong Kong’s biggest network of real estate agents. A separate data set by Ricacorp Properties reported 93 sales across 50 estates last week, for the lowest rate since...

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