67-year-old Colombian woman makes money selling neighbourhood gossip; she carries a notebook, collects evidence, also takes payment to keep her mouth shut

Colombian woman sells neighborhood gossip. (Photo: Gulf Today) Gossip may be free, but a 67-year-old woman in Colombia claims she has found a way to turn neighbourhood secrets into a lucrative business, one that she says has helped her buy two houses. Miryam, who lives in Armenia in Colombia’s Quindío department, has gone viral after…

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At 16, an Indiana girl earned 5 cents a day working at a neighbourhood café; her family later bought it, and 100 years after it opened her daughter still runs it

Photos inside 100-year-old Sunny Italy Café in South Bend When 16-year-old Frances began washing dishes and serving customers at a neighbourhood eatery along the St. Joseph River in South Bend, Indiana, she earned just five cents a day. A century later, the same restaurant is still in her family, serving its famous hand-rolled meatballs and…

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In 1952, Mary Tsingou programmed a Los Alamos experiment that helped change modern physics; her role was reduced to a footnote and took more than 50 years to receive proper credit

Mathematician and programmer Mary Tsingou Menzel When mathematician and programmer Mary Tsingou Menzel sat down in 1952 at Los Alamos National Laboratory to code a complex physics problem on one of the world’s earliest digital computers, she was breaking new ground. Her work helped make possible a landmark experiment that went on to influence chaos…

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Jared Leto sells former Los Angeles Air Force compound for $12 million; 14,649-sq-ft mansion bought for $5 million in 2015 had screening rooms, film vaults and a Cold War history |

Jared Leto has sold his former Los Angeles Air Force compound for $12 million. Jared Leto has quietly sold one of Los Angeles’ most unusual celebrity properties, offloading his sprawling former Air Force compound for $12 million after nearly a decade of ownership.According to TMZ, the Oscar-winning actor and Thirty Seconds to Mars frontman sold…

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