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...century A.D. sent runners into the Apennines to fetch mountain snow, which he then flavored with honey and fruit...
Collectors and souvenir hunters have always been inspired by strange and esoteric impulses. A lock of Napoleon's hair, which even Josephine would not have given a sou for, can today fetch upwards of $200. A frying pan used by Britain's "Great Train Robbers" when they were hiding out in a Midlands farmhouse in 1963 recently went for $120. Even so, the mania for Hitleriana is an especially puzzling phenomenon. In the past year, sales of Third Reich mementos have begun to rise sharply. A few of the collectors are old diehard Nazis like a former...
...recent years banks and retailers have competed vigorously to stuff U.S. wallets with millions of credit cards (see Music). Their' success quickly taught burglars and muggers that a stolen card can fetch several thousand dollars' worth of merchandise in a few hours, to say nothing of a $100 resale rate from the nearest fence. Last year card thieves netted an estimated $30 million in goods and services from the nation's 15 major oil companies alone...
...heroine are Omar ben Allel and his wife Dawia, who live with six of their children in three rooms in a ramshackle section of the city. The key child is their daughter, Khadija, her parents' "most negotiable piece of property." As a 13-year-old virgin, she should fetch a handsome bride price -but then she is abducted...
Juan de Pareja is a remarkable painting, but it is not the best Velásquez. His Rokeby Venus at Britain's National Gallery, for instance, is far more important. Similarly, the Met's Aristotle is not the best Rembrandt. The dazzling prices such paintings fetch are merely reflections of the fact that there are few Old Masters left outside museums...