Word: memorabilia
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However, his interest in historical memorabilia has also derived from his interest in history itself. Besides buttons and autographs, he has collected a great number of historical facts in his head, and used them to good advantage in his days as a Quiz...
...emancipation proclamation from the man they called "Pa." His attitude was: "Let the children have a good time." Biographer Randall (Mary Lincoln), widow of the late Lincoln scholar J. G. Randall, brings a mother-hen style to her bundle of anecdotes that will wholly please only devoted parents and memorabilia collectors, but the book does light up Lincoln as father, and what it means to grow up in the shadow of a great...
...museum to house his memorabilia was opened in Abilene, Kans...
...been flooded with medals and honors and gifts of great price. Together they make an impressive spectacle of 2,200 items, worth $1,500,000. This week, in Ike's boyhood home, Abilene, Kans., the Eisenhower Museum, housing Ike's war trophies and other Eisenhower memorabilia, will be informally opened to the public. The President will preside over the formal opening next autumn...
...Germany's Kaiser Wilhelm II, widow of Count Friedrich Karl of Hesse, granddaughter of Britain's Queen Victoria; in her cottage on her 250-acre Friedrichshof estate, near Kronberg, Germany. During the Allied air bombardment of Germany, Princess Margarethe secretly transferred the Hesse family jewels and memorabilia (estimated value: $3,000,000) from a Frankfort bank vault to a Friedrichshof subcellar and sealed the entrance. In 1945 the castle became an officers' club run by WAC Captain Kathleen Nash, who soon ferreted out the jewels, with two male officers smuggled her loot to the U.S. The following...