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Just one week after schools reopened in a northern Georgia school district, more than 800 of its students and staff have been told to quarantine. Last week, the Cherokee County School District, about 44 miles north of Atlanta, told 20 people to quarantine when one 2nd-grader tested positive for the virus after the first day of school. That number grew fast, and as of Monday night, the school has ordered 826 students to quarantine due to possible exposure, according to a list the district created. The 42,000-student district lists about 40 cases in 19 elementary, middle and high schools, but it is unclear if all of those represent positive coronavirus tests or if some are of people who...

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A newly opened highway in China’s Guangdong province has been making news headlines for a very peculiar reason: it’s built around the tiny home who refused to move. China is well-known for its “nail houses”, properties of homeowners who reject compensation from a developer for their demolition, but while most such examples are encountered within new residential complexes, the one we’re featuring today stands in the middle of a highway bridge. Footage released by Chinese media shows the property tightly squeezed between the lanes of the newly opened Haizhuyong Bridge, in the city of Guangzhou. It is located in a pit in the middle of the four-lane road bridge...

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A suburban Chicago home has become known locally as the “Pie House” because of its resemblance to a wedge-shaped slice of pie. Built in 2003, on an oblong plot of land in Deerfield, Illinois, 1,122 square feet of the Pie House has become somewhat of a local tourist attraction, with people stopping by regularly just to take pictures of the unusually narrow building. Famous for its unique shape, the Pie House was born out of necessity, as developer Greg Weissman of Advantage Properties tried to make the best of an oblong piece of land only 0.09 acres in size, which is unusually small for the suburbs. Despite one of the walls being only 3-feet-wide, the Pie House turned out...

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Apair of skyscrapers are set to become the tallest prefabricated buildings in the world. And while the two 192-meter-tall (630 feet) towers will rise in densely populated Singapore, large parts of the structures are being built over the border in Malaysia. The residential project, named Avenue South Residences, will see 988 apartments formed from almost 3,000 vertically stacked "modules." The firm behind the project, ADDP Architects, says the building method, known as Prefabricated Prefinished Volumetric Construction (PPVC), is less labor-intensive and can help reduce waste and noise pollution. The individual modules are factory-made in Senai, Malaysia, where a series of six-sided boxes...

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I’M A CELEB stars may be extra keen to Get Out of Here this year — as their camp is a haunted castle. Show chiefs have paid a king’s ransom to secure the sprawling and spooky-looking 200-year-old Gwrych Castle folly in North Wales. The eerie ruins are said to be prowled by the spectre of previous owner, the Countess of Dundonald. The floating woman in white is said to be angry that her husband stripped the castle of valuables. A chilling photo taken there ten years ago shows a pale, shadowy young woman on the first floor — in what used to be a magnificent banquet hall. However, the floorboards beneath the window had rotted away, making it impossible to stand there....

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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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