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This Egg Would Make One Big Omelet

Carl Coffey — Fri, 26 Apr 2013 14:57:44 +0000

A giant egg laid by a now-extinct elephant bird sold for $104,482 at an auction in London.

The egg is nearly nine inches wide and 12 inches high. The rare partially fossilized egg is more than 100 times the size of a chicken.

Beatles Items Bring In Big Bucks

Carl Coffey — Thu, 17 Nov 2011 13:01:50 +0000

When John Lennon and Yoko Ono held their week-long Bed-In for Peace in Montreal in 1969 he made a placard that read, “Bed Peace.” That sign sold for $155,600 yesterday at Christie’s Rock and Pop Memorabilia Auction in London. Also another Beatle item on the block a letter written in 1960 by Paul McCartney offering [...]

Christie's Auctions Off Beatles Photo Collection

Carl Coffey — Wed, 20 Jul 2011 12:10:46 +0000

Rare images of the The Beatles are on the auction block in Manhattan today. Mike Mitchell was a young photographer when he captured The Beatles at the Washington Coliseum in 1964. It was the band’s first American concert ever. Now, Mitchell’s selling pictures from that night and others snapped during the birth of Beatlemania in [...]