A woman who was given a self portrait by Andy Warhol in the 1960s but stashed it in a closet for 40 years, has sold it at auction for £2.4 million. Cathy Naso had worked as a receptionist for Warhol at The Factory in New York when she was a teenager, and as a gift [...]
November 9, 2009
A lucky woman found an umbrella worth £17,500 in her house during a spring cleaning. The rare Faberge umbrella had been given to the unnamed woman — along with some old walking sticks — by her mother-in-law when she moved home. But it was only when she was gathering them up to take to a [...]
November 6, 2009
SPOKANE, Wash. — A Volkswagen van stolen 35 years ago in Washington state has been found in a shipping container at the Los Angeles/Long Beach seaport. Customs agents found the 1965 van on Oct. 19 when they opened a shipping container bound for The Netherlands. They ran the vehicle identification number and discovered it was [...]
November 4, 2009
TERRACE PARK, Ohio – A Halloween trick or treater in Ohio may have gotten a bigger treat than expected — a diamond ring. A woman in suburban Cincinnati tells WXIX-TV she thinks she may have lost her wedding ring when she was tossing candy into trick or treaters’ bags on Halloween. Elizabeth Olson says she [...]
September 27, 2009
When an archaeological discovery in Staffordshire was recently announced, experts described it as one of the most important in British archaeological history. They said it surpassed the greatest previous discovery of its kind, a royal burial chamber unearthed in 1939 at Sutton Hoo, in Suffolk. That find shaped scholars’ understanding of the warring Anglo-Saxon kingdoms [...]
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November 18, 2009
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