Tag: auction
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#MorningMonarchy: May 23, 2018
Smoker’s data, free popcorn and baby boxes + this day in history w/the attack of the “losers” and our song of the day by Cowboy Junkies on your Morning Monarchy for May 23, 2018.
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#MorningMonarchy: May 18, 2018
Crossfire hurricane, ultimate analog and royalty rights + this day in history w/the death of Ian Curtis and our song of the day by Arctic Monkeys on your Morning Monarchy for May 18, 2018.
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#MorningMonarchy: April 27, 2018
Cosby’s guilt, Avicii’s questions and Modigliani’s nudes + this day in history w/Kurt Waldheim’s crimes and our song of the day by Post Animal on your Morning Monarchy for April 27, 2018.
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Victorian Vampire-Slaying Kit Up For Auction In Yorkshire
from bbc.co.uk: A Victorian vampire-slaying kit is expected to fetch £2,000 at an auction in North Yorkshire. The 19th Century box contains a crucifix, pistol, wooden stakes and mallet, as […]
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‘Salem Witch Trials’ Document Up for Auction
A document from the Salem witch trials is expected to fetch as much as $35,000 when it hits the auction block. The original court indictment of Margaret Scott, a Rowley widow in her 70s and one of the last people hanged during the 1692 hysteria in colonial Massachusetts, is part of a private collection of historical documents being sold Thursday at Swann Auction Galleries in New York.
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Space Shuttle Atlantis Touches Down, Ending An Era of Adventure In Space
She roared into the heavens a fortnight ago atop a column of fire, enthralling a million spectators as she set off on her final voyage. But the space shuttle Atlantis slipped quietly back to port on Thursday at the end of her five-million-mile journey, gently lowering the curtain on three extraordinary decades of adventure in human space flight.