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COLLECTIBLES $10.7 million Amount earned at a California auction for 301 rare U.S. pennies sold by a coin collector 1793 The year one of the coins in the collection was minted. The penny was in circulation for just two weeks before Congress concluded Lady Liberty looked too frightening. That coin...
Gone are the days when the inner workings of automata were hidden to preserve the magic; the cogs, cams, pulleys and levers at "Fantastical Mechanisms" are all part of the show. American artist Norman Tuck offers practical but surprising demonstrations of scientific principles. In Double Helix, for example, two motor...
The museum's late founder, German-born industrialist Emil Georg Bührle, made his fortune selling weapons to Germany during WWII. He studied art history and was 30 years old when he began amassing his collection, but his holdings have proven controversial. At least 13 of the artworks he...
It would be an understatement to say that things haven’t gone well for the Harvard men’s basketball team this season. Losers of six straight in the Ivy League, the Crimson returned home on Friday against Cornell as a collection of bruised and battered souls...
The Harvard women’s water polo team began its 2008 campaign in earnest this past weekend at the Princeton Invitational. Having demolished Yale 19-2 in a scrimmage earlier this season, the Crimson women stepped into New Jersey facing far stiffer competition than their New Haven counterparts.The weekend...