Ghost
(Slightly) new name, who dis? I didn’t catch enough sun in Florida to get a proper tan, but I am bringing a fresh look to the newsletter. All your favorite parts are still here, just with an updated feel. Like that friend who suddenly has a great hairline a few…
By Timothy Gardner WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The United States expanded sanctions against Iran’s petroleum and petrochemical sectors on Friday in response to an Iranian missile attack on Israel, the administration of President Joe Biden said. The U.S. move adds petroleum and petrochemicals to an executive order that targets key sectors of…
Forest City, a luxury development in Malaysia, is banking on tourism to shed its ghost town image.Forest City claimed that several thousand tourists have visited the development.But tourists and business owners alike said it’s not an attractive destination to spend or make money. Wendy Noble lives 15 minutes away from…
In 2018, Brent Underwood pooled together $1.4 million and bought an abandoned silver mine in the mountains above Death Valley.Once a thriving 19th-century mining hub, it was a desolate ghost town when he moved there two years later.In his new book “Ghost Town Living,” Underwood describes his journey to restore…
Veterans of a top-secret World War II unit that used inflatables and fake soundtracks to feed phony intelligence to Nazi Germany were given the congressional Gold Medal on Thursday.The work of the “Ghost Army” unit, comprising the 23rd Headquarters Special Troops and 3133rd Signal Service Company, is believed to have…
