A church actually helping the poor, well done!

Weighs about 30 tons. Like, 5 elephants and 37 VW beetles...

Something tells me he probably donated his prize money too.

There is a really good 2014 99% Invisible podcast about this. …. It happened in the Ballard neighborhood of Seattle

So THIS is what up was based on!

There's a place like that in my old neighborhood. About 10 years ago they started buying up all the property and building condos. This one lady lived and worked in a house/nail salon. So they call houses like this nail houses and you see where this is going. I'm not making this up. It's a nail house/nail salon. That's Portland for you. You give us weird and we give it back weirder.

It sounds good in theory ... but I don't think I would like to be that close to a mall. Just think ... Black Friday and Christmas shopping!

This is both great and sad. The win is to stand your ground. The loss is that an entire neighborhood of nature views is gone. The poor thing is relegated to being closed in with windows not enjoying a view of anything but grey concrete brick. I admire tenacity but this win is at the price of losing visual freedom.

"...refused a million dollars..." That's hilarious. Come to any major Australian city. You'd be lucky to find a 3-4 bedroom suburban house, in reasonable condition that didn't cost you AT LEAST a million dollars. 'A million dollars'. Pfft.

good for her, in the UK they would probably serve her with a compulsory purchase notice and force her to sell

I hate the idea that some building corporation can come along and force people to sell their places to be torn down. At the same time, I would not want to live surrounded by a shopping center either.

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My guess, they probably don't like the neighbors

My nephew bought a house that looks a bit like this from an old lady that wouldn't sell out and the developer had to build 2 smaller apartments on either side of her house

Free will baby!!!

Someone who had her own principles and a million dollars wasn't going to compromise them. Rare in today's world.

https://www.cnbc.com/2015/04/20/tiny-seattle-house-takes-a-final-stand.html

Takao Shito, 75, refused to sell his generational farm, which is located in the middle of Narita Airport, forcing them to design one of their runways around his property.

totally looks like "UP"

What's with the balloons?

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Did anyone else initially think this was somehow related to the house in "UP"? Side note: how awful and intrusive it must be to live surrounded by shoppers who probably think you're a folksy gift shop? 😕

The largest development in the tony Coral Gables neighborhood of Miami was also forced to build around a gentleman who refused to sell his home. He still has his home but he can't see the sky :-( https://wsvn.com/news/investigations/coral-gables-resident-still-refuses-to-sell-decades-old-home-surrounded-by-massive-development/

But why does it look like the house from Big City Greens?

I so want to take this guy's classes!

Would love to see this in England.

Bucket list item for sure, but maybe more towards the end.

Is not so much for liberating the country (US and Polish troops also played a big part in that) but for keeping the royal family safe during their exile. And temporarily changing part of a hospital Dutch soil so that the princesses were born in the Netherlands.

I do the same with my labrador :-)

Cool! Yet another reason why not to keep them as pets?

I have a sundial, I attached a light to it so it works at night also.

...fill it in?

Imagine what my life would have been like if BP had censored the word 'd**g' effectively in the above image. I could have been someone.. I could have made positive change in the world.. I could have lived with purpose. Sadly, my young mind was corrupted in an instant and I am now spiralling into darkness. My once promising mind is corrupted and I shall only know torment until my blackened heart rests at the end of what will surely be a cursed life. Why, BP? WHY? Tell your children what has happened here today, lest they sink into the same deep, dark cavern of woe.

Svalbard, Norway. And it's threatened by climate change, so...

As my anthropology prof said, we are all out of Africa

I have A neg. I signed up to donate blood some years ago and I've been donating regularly. It seems to be a rare type (at least in my area), because I am sometimes contacted by someone from the donation center and asked if I could come on day X for an urgent blood request. It's cool to know you're really helping someone. Someday you might be the one in need of blood.

What is the difference between a rabbit lifting weights and a rabbit with a carrot in its ear? Ones a fit bunny, the other is a bit funny.

And no/very little free freshwater available?

They're an offshoot of the Chinese Red Delicious; like the majority of apples are cultivated to be this way, not natural. The growing conditions are very specific so incredibly hard to duplicate hence why you don't see others trying to grow them. You can, however, get the Arkansas Black Apple, which is very similar in appearance though tart rather than sweet. Also cultivated of course.

Calling it a diamond mine is a bit like calling a mountain stream a gold mine just because panning for gold can actually produce a modest amount of gold. The place is Crater of Diamonds State Park, and park statistics say that about 1 of every 200 visitors finds a diamond. A few very valuable diamonds have been found, but the park says that most aren't even appraised. I'm sure it can be fun, but it would be a mistake t think there's a good financial reason for a visit.

I know in my brain it's an octopus, however, doesn't that look like my man's carrying a 8 armed Alien through the water?!?!?

And she has already donated billions of dollars to various charities

Eats 300000 (a) mo(n)th.

People who work with pineapples, cutting them up for processing etc, lose their fingerprints, the acids in the pineapples eat the ridges away.

Neither her or Stephen Hawking never had a twitter account. The rest is also partially inaccurate https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/sabrina-pasterski-physics-girl/

Also one of the strongest currencies in the world.

Copying my comment from below. I watched several architect videos stating that such buildings were absolutely unsustainable and an absurdity (issues with constantly having to care for the trees, inc roots growing, flats being infested with bugs (inc mosquitoes) to the point where inhabitants don't open their windows) massive use of water etc. Several people in the comments who lived in such buildings seemed to validate these points...If you have some further feedback i'm interested

Or maybe just plant a tree? In the US, these tanks would be vandalized and broken in no time at all.

Do they do anything useful, or could we have rid of them completely?

also for maple syrup. The real stuff.

That looks so very uncomfortable.

So, apparently it wasn’t a door.

Really cool to eat a lemon afterwards, but the sweet-taste is little bit different than ordinary sugar.

*stashes under Christmas Tree* "It's a soap set".