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...chance to get rich quick. Planking down his hard-earned savings of ?100, he saw them swell miraculously to ?1,000 in a few days. But he was out on the moors, delivering a baby, when his stock crashed, leaving him ?7. Cronin decided that he had learned another priceless lesson; he dug into his pocket to buy the newborn baby a silver mug, inscribed with the youngster's name and the words, "What money...
...priceless pebble, pitcured here, is more than a mass of jumbled, meaningless lines. Only four-and-three-fourths inches in length, archaeologists have acclaimed it "the greatest Aurignasian drawing ever found." At least 14 animals are portrayed on the pebble, in addition to the wild horse which can be clearly seen...
Last week, after a brief, pointed correspondence with East Germany's President Wilhelm Pieck, Dr. Itten went to Berlin's Soviet sector. There he solemnly handed his box of trinkets (i.e., priceless Communist relics) over to East Germany's State Art Commission, watched grunting Germans load his precious statues on to a Swiss truck. An "exemplary cultural exchange," announced the art commissar grandly. Dr. Itten did not crack a smile...
...scroll is believed to be the lost and legendary Book of Lamech, the story of Noah's father. Some 26 lines from a fragment of the manuscript have led archaeologists and Biblical experts to assume that the priceless scroll contains the story of Noah's youth, of the coming of the Great Flood, of preparations for buildings and setting afloat...
Triumph & Death. Scarcely pausing to taste his success, Schliemann rushed on to Mycenae, Agamemnon's city, and there unearthed the tombs of the Mycenaean kings with their treasures of gold and priceless antiquities, and on again to Orchomenus in the Peloponnesus, where he uncovered the legendary treasury of King Minyas, and to Tiryns, the birthplace of Hercules, where he revealed the largest citadel of the Grecian world. At last, at the age of 68, Schliemann committed the only anticlimax of his career-he died in Naples of a sudden infection...