Tag: Empty

The wind carries dust through the empty mansions in the ghost town in Shenyang, north of Beijing. Cattle roam the streets where upper-class residents were supposed to stroll. This is not unusual. In China some 65 million homes sit empty — victims of the real estate drive that underlay the c...

“Is the glass half empty or half full?” a proverbial phase to indicate that a particular situation could be a cause for pessimism (half empty) or optimism (half full). Year 2023: i pursued financial education and learnt about the FIRE concept. FIRE = Financial Independence, Retire Ea...

Lorens said, “Come on Bev, let’s have a day like we use to have before we had kids”, (to try and stop me from worrying, biting my nails and being a nervous wreck like I had been all day). So we bought a steak burrito cut in 1/2, a 6 pack of beer, and we went to the rocks at the lak...

Dubai, a city that hosts the ultimate building of the world, Burj-Khalifa is a record-setter by hosting astonishing hotels, astonishing shopping malls, and the longest gold shopping centre. In 2003, a new feather has been announced to add to its feather, “The World”, man-made island; a p...

Last summer, when the spring lockdown temporarily lifted, we engaged in a bit of an ‘empty Prague tourism.’ It’s surprising how little I get to see the city’s historical parts — I mostly avoid them because they are full of tourists. Prague is wonderful (so I understand ...

It’s been more than a year since a new San Francisco tax on stubbornly empty storefronts, touted by its biggest champion as a “behavior changer,” has been on the books. The levy was approved by voters in 2020 just before COVID shut down the city, then was delayed until 2022 in...

When it comes to understanding a person’s birth chart and life path, empty houses in astrology are frequently disregarded or misinterpreted, despite their significance. The birth chart’s empty, planet-free sectors offer important clues about a person’s abilities, limitati...

The master narrative of civilization in the Americas claims that brave European explorers “discovered” continents sparsely populated by stone age hunter-gatherers who had no use for land titles. When the hunting played out or the harvest season for fruits and vegetables ended, the Native...

How is this possible? It’s like the Universe itself doesn’t understand our idea of “nothing” at all; if we were to remove all the quanta of energy from our Universe, leaving behind only empty space, we would immediately expect that the Universe would be at absolute zero: with...

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