Pleasure and Profit of Coin Collecting
The first coins ever invented were probably stamped ingots of electrum, a mixture of gold and...
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Pink Diamonds – The Very Highest Quality Diamonds
One of the Rarest and Most Valuable Colours of Diamond Natural fancy coloured diamonds are very...
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The Lumière Brothers
The Lumière brothers, Auguste Marie Louis Nicolas (19 October 1862, Besançon, France – 10 April...
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The Kinetoscope
Thomas Alva Edison invented the phonograph in 1877 and it had quickly become the most popular home...
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Georges Méliès
The shift in consciousness away from films as animated photographs to films as stories, or...
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Emile Reynaud 1844–1918
Charles-Émile Reynaud was a French science teacher, responsible for the first animated films. He...
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About Pearls
Pearls differ from other gemstones in as much as they are not mined but harvested from molluscs,...
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About Paperweights
In the 19th century, educated ladies and gentlemen sat at their desks writing letters and making...
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Impressionism & Impressionist
Impressionism was a 19th century art movement, which began as a loose association of Paris-based...
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Canadian School of Painting
The greatest influence on Canadian painting in the 1920s and 1930s was exerted by the Group of...
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