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World’s Largest Treehouse Burns to the Ground
In the last few days, Harold Burgess, the creator of the world’s largest treehouse, has been taking calls from mourners all over the world who had made pilgrimages to the 97-foot-tall wooden structure in Crossville, Tenn. On Tuesday night, it burned to the ground. It took about 15 minutes for the monastery-like edifice to become …
Hands-on with a new foldable phone concept that’s the largest and most daring yet
TCL gives us a brand new foldable design we’ve never seen before. Tyler Lizenby/CNET I’ve opened and closed foldable phones hundreds of times by now. But even after reviewing the Galaxy Fold (twice), playing with Huawei’s Mate X and bending slim concept designs, nothing has prepared me for TCL’s prototype dual-hinged phone, which folds in three …
Inside one of the world’s largest licensed brothels
A BBC investigation has found children as young as seven are being groomed to sell sex in one of the world’s largest licensed brothels. Sex work is legal for women over the age of 18 in Bangladesh, but some women in Daulatdia, 100km from Dhaka, say they were forced into prostitution when they were children. …
Giant salamander may be the world’s largest amphibian
A painting shows the new species of giant salamander called Andrias sligoi, the largest amphibian in the world. After her discovery in 2013, Victoria’s 66-million-year-old, fossilized skeleton was restored bone by bone. She’s the second most complete T. rex fossil on record. An artist’s illustration shows how different an ancient “short-faced” kangaroo called Simosthenurus occidentalis …
Kaiser healthcare workers plan for nation’s largest strike since 1997
More than 80,000 Kaiser Permanente emergency medical technicians, nurses, respiratory therapists and other staffers are threatening to walk out of work next month, in what could be the nation’s largest strike since 1997. The authorization to strike, approved by 98% of the union members who voted, does not mean a walk out will happen, but …
Guinness World Records Announces The World’s Largest, Tallest, Smallest, Oldest Hotels, And More
First World Hotel in Malaysia is the world’s largest First World Hotel World records are being broken every year, and with the demand from travelers for more outrageous experiences and destinations, developers are angling to create the best of the best. Territories like China and Dubai are leading the pack with the most record winning …
Agropolis will open the world’s largest rooftop farm in Paris
Large rooftop farms aren’t new—in Chicago’s South Side, a 75,000-square-foot greenhouse on top of a factory building grows up to 10 million heads of leafy greens each year (and was the largest rooftop greenhouse in the world when it was built). In Brooklyn, a new rooftop farm with a 55,000-square-foot garden and 5,000-square-foot greenhouse is …
Deadly Legionnaires’ outbreak at Atlanta hotel is the largest on record in Georgia
One person died of the disease and 11 other cases were confirmed after stays or visits at the Sheraton Atlanta Hotel between June 12 and July 15, Nancy Nydam, a spokeswoman for the Georgia Department of Public Health, said in an email. There also have been 63 probable cases, Nydam said. Probable cases are those …
Moscow protests: Opposition rally ‘largest since 2011’
Image copyright Reuters Image caption Thousands of demonstrators demanded free elections in a rally in Moscow Tens of thousands have attended Moscow’s largest opposition rally since 2011, independent monitors say. Up to 60,000 people reportedly gathered in the rain to demand fair elections. The protest was officially authorised but dozens of people were arrested as …
One of the Largest Hotel Companies in the World is Ditching Mini Bathroom Bottles to Eliminate Plastic
The company that runs the Holiday Inn and Crowne Plaza hotel chains announced this week that all of its 843,000 guest rooms will provide shampoo and other bathroom amenities from bulk-sized containers, eliminating millions of plastic bottles from landfills. InterContinental Hotels Group (IHG), one of the world’s leading hotel companies, will be implementing the phase-out …
