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Christopher Funk

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just learned that magnolias are so old that they’re pollinated by beetles because they existed before bees

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Hilarious vintage snapshots that show life was so simple and fun back then.

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There was a bit of an arms race in early ballooning between people who wanted to use hot air to lift balloons and those who wanted to use lighter-than-air gases like hydrogen.

The hot-air devotees, led by the brothers Joseph-Michel Montgolfier and Jacques-Étienne Montgolfier had an early lead in the race. They had watched fire ashes lift into the air and wondered whether the smoke — which they thought was a lighter-than-air product of the fires — could lift people, too. They experimented with small balloons, then larger ones made of burlap sealed with several layers of paper inside.

Finally, they launched the first unmanned hot-air balloon in June 1783 at Annonay, France, in front of a crowd of dignitaries. The balloon — without a basket or any kind of payload — ascended several thousand feet over the course of about 10 minutes.

The hydrogen users weren’t far behind. A French scientist named Jacques Charles designed a balloon made of silk with a rubber coating and painstakingly filled it with hydrogen in central Paris. This took days, and it became a curiosity; crowds gathered and gawked at the slowly inflating balloon.

When Charles finally launched his craft — again, with a crowd of important people in attendance, including Benjamin Franklin, the American ambassador to France at the time — it flew a little better than the Montgolfiers’ effort, traveling several miles over 45 minutes. But when the balloon landed, local farmers attacked and destroyed it.

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The Bus | Paul Kirchner | Via

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A small A-frame on a slope over a walkout basement would be amazing. Something with a loft covered porch/entry like this from the uphill side:

And comfortable living space accessible from the back:

This artwork of a more traditional house gives an idea of the interior layout.

The kitchen, full bathroom, and living room in the basement with the upper A-frame's "ground floor" containing a half bath and the bedroom(s?), and the traditional loft area of the A-frame being used for storage or a spare bunk.

I'd continue the driveway from the uphill front to loop downhill to the basement entrance so heavy or bulk items don't have to unloaded and immediately carried downstairs.

For my large family this would be a good vacation home and hunting cabin, but it would also be a great full-time home for a smaller family or empty nesters.

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Forest pathways

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Ideal view

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