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The culture in the mountains is different. Here the people lived in caves, painted their pottery, and practiced "secondary burial. The archeological material in this area is seant because the caves where the remains are found have been sacked by the natives as a source for curios. It is the...
The first diamond James Buchanan ("Diamond Jim") Brady bought cost $90. When he died in 1917 he had spent $2,000,000 on precious stones. Besides such curios as a diamond-tipped cane, he owned 30 complete sets of jeweled cuff links, studs, tie pins, fobs, watch chains, etc. A...
The founder of the House of Rothschild was 'Mayer Amschel, son of Amschel Moses Bauer. He was a dealer in coins, curios and jewels. The earliest Rothschilds lived in a double house in Frankfort's Jew Street. They took their name from a red shield which hung outside...
Speer dresses often in black. She gardens at Lakeville, Conn., collects Chinese furniture, curios. Much-traveled, both on her husband's mission work and her own, Mrs. Speer eschews society for her good deeds and her home.
Died. Setsuko Koizumi, 69, relict of Yakumo Koizumi (Lafcadio Hearn); of arteriosclerosis; in Tokyo. In 1891 Lafcadio Hearn went to Japan to write articles for Harper's Magazine. Quarrelsome, he broke his contract because the illustrator was to get more money than he, was stranded until friends got him...