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Sylvester Stallone and, later, Vogue food columnist and cookbook author Barbara Kafka once called this sun-filled modernist house in upstate New York home, and now it can be yours for $4.3 million. Located at 40 High Ridge Road in Garrison, New York, and built in 1969, the flat-roofed home was recently gut-renovated by the Brooklyn-based design firm Madderlake. The “Rocky” star owned the river-view residence in the late 1980s, and Kafka picked it up in 1999 and lived there until 2015. The current owner is Shea Spencer, founder of the management agency Artist Commissions; she rents out theproperty for photoshoots with major brands, including Marc Jacobs and Bergdorf Goodman,...

[Unicode] ဈေးကြီးတဲ့ စံအိမ်ကြီးတွေကိုမှ ဝယ်စုရတာနှစ်ခြိုက်ကြတဲ့ ဟောလီးဝုဒ်ရုပ်ရှင်ကြယ်ပွင့်များရဲ့ထုံးစံအတိုင်းပါပဲ။ Iron Man ရုပ်ရှင်ဇာတ်ကားများနဲ့ကမ္ဘာကျော်ခဲ့သူ Robert Downey Jr မှာလည်း ‌ဒေါ်လာ 11.9 သန်း တန်ကြေးရှိတဲ့ လေရဟတ်...

The discovery of a ship, missing for five centuries, in a southwest African desert, filled with gold coins, is one of the most thrilling archaeological finds in recent times. The Bom Jesus (The Good Jesus) was a Portuguese vessel that set sail from Lisbon, Portugal on Friday, March 7, 1533. Its fate was unknown until 2008 when its remains were discovered in the desert of Namibia during diamond mining operations near the coast of the African nation. When it sank in a fierce storm, it was on its way to India laden with treasures like gold and copper ingots. Two thousand pure gold coins and tens of thousands of pounds of copper ingots were discovered on the Bom Jesus, almost all...

Portuguese soccer icon Cristiano Ronaldo is constructing a mansion near Lisbon that might soon steal the crown for Portugal’s most expensive residence. New details have emerged regarding the sprawling spread that Ronaldo — who rakes in $216 million annually with the Saudi Arabian team Al-Nassr — has commissioned to be built in the popular beach town of Cascais. The property, which is set to be located in the oceanside Quinta da Marinha area, will span nearly 10,000 square feet along the Atlantic coastline and be bursting with opulent amenities. So many that may make it, once completed, potentially the nation’s priciest pad, according to Idealista, noting that the...

An historic estate formerly occupied by relatives of the noblewoman depicted in the “Mona Lisa” — arguably the most famous painting in the world — has hit the market. Set in the countryside of Scandicci, a 50,000-person municipality just west of Florence, Italy, the more than 700-year-old villa once belonged to the family of Francesco del Giocondo, who commissioned Leonardo da Vinci to paint a portrait of his wife, Lisa del Giocondo. It has been on display at the Louvre in Paris since the late 1700s and, to this day, receives hordes of visitors who clamor for a quick snapshot of the tiny frame. The property is seeking $19.66 million and is listed with Sara...

 Guinness World Records (GWR) frequently showcases many achievements accomplished by individuals worldwide. One recent highlight features an Egyptian man who set the world record for the fastest time to visit the new Seven Wonders of the World. Magdy Eissa, 45, set the new record in 6 days 11 hrs and 52 minutes. He used only public transport to visit the new Seven Wonders of the World. He beat the previous record set last year by Englishman Jamie McDonald. Speaking to GWR, Mr Magdy said that planning his record-breaking route was a "monumental" task which took almost one and a half years. "I had to navigate a complex web of flights, trains, buses, subways and walking between...

My paternal grandparents had nine children, and my father was the eldest. Before he turned 17, my father took on almost all the major responsibilities in the household because after him, my grandmother gave birth to four daughters and could not handle heavy work. Back then, my father had to take care of his siblings and tend to the fields during the day while helping my grandmother make bricks to build a five-room house in the evening. My grandfather worked as the commune’s clerk and did not engage in household chores. When my father turned 17, he joined the military, later leaving his hometown and settling in a big city. After my grandmother passed away, my grandfather transferred...

A woman in China who received multiple money transfers amounting to 2.26 million yuan (US$310,000) from a stranger, and returned all the funds without hesitation, has won praise for her honesty. The woman, surnamed Wang, said she received a number of phone calls at the end of June from someone she did not know, Henan TV reported. “That person called me again and again. So I finally picked up the phone,” Wang, who lives in Xuchang, Henan province, central China said. “A woman cried on the phone, telling me that she got it wrong by transferring 2.26 million yuan to me.” The stranger, surnamed Tian, said she had sent the money through Alipay, a mobile payment...

Two years following the passing of Ivana Trump, her ornate East 64th Street townhouse remains for sale — and it has seen yet another price cut, according to StreetEasy records. Originally listed for $26.5 million in November 2022, just four months after her death, the price was slashed to $22.5 million last year. Now, StreetEasy shows, the asking price has dropped once more to $19.5 million — $7 million less than the initial listing.Adam Modlin of the eponymous Modlin Group holds the listing. He didn’t respond to a message seeking comment by press time. (Flowers and a note are placed at the front doorway of Ivana Trump’s home, on July 17 2022, in the wake of...

A crumbling Soviet sea-city of artificial islands connected by 200 miles of roads remains to this day - but the structure is sinking and may soon be lost to the waves. Neft Dashlari or "Oil Rocks" was built in the 1949 by then USSR leader Joseph Stalin off the coast of Azerbaijan in the Caspian Sea. The despot comissioned the structure was comissioned in a bid to meet the growing demand for oil, after huge deposits were found there. It's thought to be the largest and oldest offshore oil mining rig in existence, though it's slowly being reclaimed by nature, with its pillars mounted upon sunken vessels. It initially had just a single path on the sea before it became a network of...