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Gift Ideas for Collectors
Time to play Santa is just around the corner. Finished your shopping yet? No? No sweat. A trip to the local bookstore will offer lots of possibilities with many new books about collecting available this year. You can read...
January 9: The most famous image of Edgar Allan Poe was a daguerreotyp
The most famous image of Edgar Allan Poe was a daguerreotype taken in 1848 shortly before his death. The daguerreotype was a positive-only process allowing no reproduction of the picture. The development of the image was effected by placing the exposed plate over a slightly heated about 75C. cup of mercury.Jan 09 2005 9:48 GMT
Barbie Live and On Tour!
Barbie's Fairytopia dolls and the Barbie Fairytopia DVD release has been immensely popular with Mattel's smallest clientele--girls 3 through 8 years old. Starting next year, little girls and their moms can, for the first time, see a talking, singing and...
In its pure form, Glass is a transparent, relatively strong, hard-wear
These desirable properties lead to the very many uses of glass. Can be made in several layers, engraved, enameled, gilded, or painted. Alongside the preference for items decorated in the style of the High Renaissance, there emerged a demand for reproduction objects of other periods... Oct 09 2004 11:00 GMT
