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Badly Stuffed Animals
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More inadvertent genius here than in the Louvre. The Badly Stuffed Animals page on Facebook. Enjoy!
Link: Badly Stuffed Animals on Facebook
Treasure of Cartimandua
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A pair of hobbyists using metal detectors uncover a hoard of torques and gold in North Yorkshire believed to be from the hoard of Queen Cartimandua.
So far the value approaches $1,000,000 dollars, but the amateur archeologists believe that there's a lot more yet to be recovered...
Read More Here: Torque of the Town
Garage Sales - Week 10 - 2011
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- Written by: Rod Boyle
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No parades or lists this weekend, just a drive following my hunches. And there are a few, some books (one - a 1st edition of "Adrift on an Ice Pan" - the first hand account of one man's voyage on an ice pan, I'm guessing, complete with illustrations & photo of the author - 10 points for obscure adventure travel), some antique artist's handbooks, a houseplant that perfectly fills the corner, a couple of grass-hockey sticks to be placed in the hall with the walking sticks, sword and canes, a musical frog, a slingshot I pass on to G at work (who swears to kill gophers with it that very evening. **sigh**).
Nothing too great, but not too bad either, the season is, after all, over.
Gold hoard found in French cellar
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From the BBC:
A French couple have found a hoard of gold coins worth at least 100,000 euros (£89,000; $140,000) in the cellar of their home in the town of Millau.They were working on their drains when they dug up the 34 coins in a little clay pot, French media said.
Read more here: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-14080228
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