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The Top 10 Most Haunted Houses In The World
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The Top 10 Most Haunted Houses In The World

Auschwitz-Birkenau Concentration Camp (Oswiecim, Poland) - Haunted houses aren't just homes, per se. The top 10 most haunted houses in the world include any building that houses people, and this is one of the grimmest places in the world. The Auschwitx Concentration camp is has one of the most blood-stained histories in the world, with over 2 million deaths in a five-year period (1940-45). The torture and genocide that took place here is some of the most horrific in human history. Raynham Hall (Norfolk, England) - Home to England's most famous ghost, the brown lady. According to folk legend, a picture of the brown lady was captured in the mid-1930's, and that picture remains one of the most authentic ghost pictures ever taken. The Whaley House (San Diego, California) - The most ...
Famous Frat Houses In The Movies
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Famous Frat Houses In The Movies

In most cases, fraternity houses in the movies are fictitious and are not anything like a real fraternity is ran. In some cases this is not always the case. Whether real or fake, movies that feature Greek houses have popularized fraternity houses all over America. Here are some of the very famous Greek houses from the movies that have made fraternity life so appealing. Alpha Delta Phi- This Greek house located on the Dartmouth campus has been made famous by the National Lampoon's movie, Animal House. The movie featured John Belushi and Kevin Bacon as well as several other cast members of the Saturday Night Live cast of 1978. The custom Greek clothing that was made for the movie was authentic to the fraternity house at the time. Many people still purchase these custom Greek shirts becau...
Next Stop for Retired School Buses: Tiny Houses for Homeless Families
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Next Stop for Retired School Buses: Tiny Houses for Homeless Families

My nonprofit converts buses into fully functioning, attractive 240-square-foot tiny houses on wheels for homeless children and their parents. The rains came down sideways. We had one hour to get our first new “skoolie”—a school bus converted into a tiny house on wheels—out of the construction yard and into its new home at an RV park. We needed to get Betsy the Wonder Bus plugged into power, test the hot water heater and get the fire going in the brand new wood stove. This would be its first night as a home for an unsheltered family. Made by our newly minted nonprofit, Vehicles for Changes, Betsy rolled down the highway to its new space at the Jackson Wellsprings RV Park just outside of Ashland, in the southernmost tip of Oregon. Everything worked as we checked it off:...