Oregon hobbyist Ed St. John’s backyard railway attracted volunteers, laying the foundations for a remarkable miniature railroad. What began as one man’s backyard hobby in Southern Oregon has grown into a sprawling railway landscape where tiny trains travel through thousands of acres. According to the official website, Train Mountain is far removed from the idea…

    Image: Left/Britannica/Right/Refinery29 Few beauty stories capture the power of social media as clearly as the rise of Kylie Jenner‘s cosmetics business. What began in November 2015 as a debut lip kit became Kylie Cosmetics, a brand that built a devoted audience online and then attracted one of the largest beauty companies in the world. In…

The dealer flew to London with a photograph, unknowingly carrying clues to a lost imperial Fabergé treasure. Sometimes history turns up in the least likely places. For one Midwest scrap-metal dealer, that moment came at an antiques market, where an ornate gold egg seemed to be little more than an opportunity to make a modest…

Peyton served alongside Guidry at St Peter Catholic Church in Morrow, Louisiana, where his son Oliver was an altar server. (AI image) A former Catholic deacon in Louisiana, who left the Church after a priest admitted sexually abusing his teenage son in 2018, has lost his appeal against excommunication. Scott Peyton, who resigned from Catholic…

A wall of portraits inside the former bedroom of Neil Armstrong in Wapakoneta, Ohio. (Photo credit: AP Photo/Patrick Aftoora-Orsagos) In July 1969, Ken Schreiber was nine years old when Neil Armstrong became the first person to walk on the Moon. The moment stayed with him, and like Armstrong, Schreiber eventually became a military fighter pilot….

Former OpenAI engineer and Saudi national Abdulrahman Alfozan/Image: Reuters A former OpenAI engineer accused of planting a bug in the company’s San Francisco office was in contact with a member of the Saudi royal family who urged him to return to the kingdom and join its artificial intelligence initiative, prosecutors said, as cited by CBS…