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Man buys $2m Andy Warhol sketch for $5

April 3, 2012
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A British businessman is said to have stumbled on a never-before-seen Andy Warhol sketch at a US art sale – picking it up for less than $5. The 1930s sketch was hidden among other items Andy Field bought in Las Vegas, The Sun newspaper reported. The signed work is thought to have been etched...
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Operation Crossbow: How 3D glasses helped defeat Hitler

May 14, 2011
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By Jon KellyBBC News Magazine Continue reading the main story  In today’s Magazine Quiz of the week’s news How can you explain cancer clusters? What makes people complain about ads? Paper Monitor Newly released photographs show how a team of World War II experts disrupted Nazi plans to bombard Britain – with the help...
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‘Time traveller’ caught at 1928 Chaplin film premiere

October 27, 2010
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For years, humans have wondered if time travel is a possibility – a possibility that’s caught the fancy of many a writer and theorist. But if vintage footage from a Charlie Chaplin film premiere is any indication, that fantasy may well have been actualised. Belfast filmmaker George Clarke, a keen collector of Charlie Chaplin...
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Crazy inventions of the past (30 pics)

October 16, 2010
Crazy inventions of the past (30 pics)

Curved Barrel Machine Gun, 1953M3 sub-machine gun with a curved barrel for shooting around corners.It’s the perfect gun for the “shoot first, look where you’re shooting later” kind of guy.Anti-Bandit Bag, 1963Inventor John H T Rinfret demonstrates his anti-bandit bag. To foil thieves the chain is pulled and the bottom of the case falls out...
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In Praise of Clever, Crazy Patents – Photo Gallery – LIFE

October 4, 2010
In Praise of Clever, Crazy Patents – Photo Gallery – LIFE

Fowl Play “What has been will be again,” reads the Book of Ecclesiastes. “What has been done will be done again; there is nothing new under the sun.” Nothing new under the sun. Powerful words. But with all due respect to the ancients, they clearly never spent any time pondering the peculiar, mysterious world...
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The unseen Ronnie Biggs: Face swollen from plastic surgery, Great Train Robber parties on cruise ship to Brazil

October 2, 2010
The unseen Ronnie Biggs: Face swollen from plastic surgery, Great Train Robber parties on cruise ship to Brazil

By STEPHEN WRIGHT The cheeks appear a little puffier and the sideburns just immense, but there is no mistaking the grin. Posing happily for the camera, Ronnie Biggs – his face distorted by plastic surgery – mixes with fellow passengers on a cruise liner while on the run in 1970. The pictures were taken...
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Beautiful book of full scale bird paintings from the 19th century set to net a cool £6m at Sotheby’s

September 12, 2010
Beautiful book of full scale bird paintings from the 19th century set to net a cool £6m at Sotheby’s

When it comes to buying books, generally there isn’t much to say about the purchase. In general, many of your friends will have a copy already or at least have heard of the text, trumping your possession and knowledge. However, whoever manages to snag this book – to be auctioned at Sotheby’s this year...
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New Photos of West Gate Bridge Tragedy On 40th Anniversary

September 10, 2010
New Photos of West Gate Bridge Tragedy On 40th Anniversary

Jared Lynch Frank Coates’s photos capture the scale of the disaster. LORRAINE Coates says her husband Frank was no photographer. But the former Russell Street police officer captured haunting images of Melbourne’s worst construction disaster. Mr Coates, a homicide detective, took the crime scene photographs of the West Gate Bridge collapse 40 years ago....
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Historic never-seen-before photos taken by legendary playwright George Bernard Shaw go on show for the first time

September 8, 2010
Historic never-seen-before photos taken by legendary playwright George Bernard Shaw go on show for the first time

Thousands of photographs from a collection belonging to playwright George Bernard Shaw are to be made available to the public online, the National Trust said today. The photographs include pictures of film stars such as Vivien Leigh, writers HG Wells and JM Barrie, and leading political and social figures of Shaw’s time including MP...
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English Russia » Life Magazine 1958

August 29, 2010
English Russia » Life Magazine 1958

Life Magazine 1958 In March, 1958, an American magazine Life published a big article devoted to the crisis of the educational system in the USA. As an example there were chosen two schoolboys – Alexey Kutskov from Moscow and Stephen Lapekas from Chikago. The magazine’s correspondents were chasing the boys everywhere, watching how they...
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