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...Ebay The auction powerhouse keeps expanding its repertoire, allowing users to write blogs and create wikis (collaborative info-banks), and to "Skype" each other about individual items up for bid (i.e. use the Internet telephony service to place voice calls...
...Even more outrageous to Pickens is the fact that many sellers have no idea that their horses are going to slaughter to become food. "They're thinking their horse will go to some nice family. But those killer buyers, when they buy at auction, it's just a matter of hours before the horse is slaughtered," he says. Opponents of horse slaughtering claim that many of the horses sold for consumption are young foals as well as old racehorses and "summer camp" ponies. When California voted by referendum in 1998 to ban the slaughter of horses for consumption, Pickens notes...
...Clementine, a pig put up for auction by Lacey Washut, 9, at the Central Wyoming Fair. C&Y Transportation claims its winning $200-per-lb. bid was mistakenly placed...
...room, which began May 29, include converting two roundtable consoles into tables, rearranging lounge chairs, and replacing original Aalto-designed chairs with new chairs from a different manufacturer. Pieces moved out of the room will be taken in by the Busch Reisinger Museum or sold through an auction house, according to library administrators...
...crew of up to thirty-five-to surrender and come aboard the Shenandoah as prisoners of war. Failing that, they could go down with their vessels, all of which the Confederates threatened to destroy. Alarm rippled across the decks of the whalers. Officers who had assembled for the auction on the Brunswick's decks rushed back to their own vessels and began ordering their crews to weigh anchor and prepare to sail. Perhaps, they reasoned, if they could reach the nearby Siberian coast, they would find diplomatic sanctuary inside Russian territory...