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The Man Who Sold Air — and Became a Millionaire
In 2015, a Canadian man named Moses Lam decided to sell something no one thought had value: bottled air. He collected pure air from the Rocky Mountains, sealed it in aluminum cans, and sold it online to smog-filled cities in China.
By GoldenSpeech3 months ago in BookClub
The Kingdom of the Golden Veins
In an obscure medieval chronicle titled De Flamma Vitae, monks describe a northern realm where sunlight flowed like water — Corona.
By GoldenSpeech3 months ago in BookClub
The Mermaid City That Sang Itself to Death
Beneath the Atlantic, divers have long whispered of a drowned empire — a city whose marble streets still hum faintly beneath the waves. They call it Atlantica, but the oldest texts give it another name: The Choir Below.
By GoldenSpeech3 months ago in BookClub
Elsa’s Ancestors
In the Norse sagas, there is mention of a dynasty known as the Frostborn, descended from a pact made between men and the Jötnar — the ice giants.
By GoldenSpeech3 months ago in BookClub
Ariel’s Mother
Before the Little Mermaid, there was Queen Atalassa, ruler of a kingdom beneath the Atlantic called Maris Primordia. She commanded both song and storm — her voice could calm tempests or call them.
By GoldenSpeech3 months ago in BookClub
The Beast
In an unrecorded 14th-century French legend, the Beast was never a man turned into a monster — he was a god turned into flesh.
By GoldenSpeech3 months ago in Chapters
Maui
Long before sailors sang his name, the demigod Maui was not a hero — he was a thief. The oldest Polynesian tablets describe him not as a trickster, but as a breaker of cosmic law.
By GoldenSpeech3 months ago in Chapters
Alice
In 1863, an Oxford professor recorded a strange medical case: a young girl named Alice Pleasance Liddell, who fell into a coma after a fever. For 47 days, she remained unconscious — her pulse steady, her eyes moving beneath their lids as if dreaming.
By GoldenSpeech3 months ago in Chapters
Jack Sparrow
The British Navy kept meticulous logs. Yet one entry, dated 1720, remains unexplained. It describes the capture of a pirate ship, The Black Siren, and its captain — Jonathan Sparrow, age unknown, eyes “black as tar.”
By GoldenSpeech3 months ago in Chapters
Quasimodo
During the 1830s restoration of Notre-Dame, architect Viollet-le-Duc documented something unusual — a sealed crypt beneath the bell tower, containing the skeletal remains of a man with a twisted spine and a hammer in his right hand.
By GoldenSpeech3 months ago in Chapters
Tarzan
In 1872, a British expedition vanished deep in the Congo Basin. Only one survivor returned — a missionary who spoke of “a man among apes, pale as moonlight, crowned in vines.”
By GoldenSpeech3 months ago in Chapters
Simba
In 1899, an explorer named Elias Cartwright recorded strange carvings in the Tsavo region of Kenya. They depicted a lion standing over a circle of stones — the Circle of Life, locals called it — but beneath the stones was a burial chamber filled with human bones.
By GoldenSpeech3 months ago in BookClub