At Philadelphia’s Wolf Jewlers, customers are coming in. Not to buy - but to sell, CBS News correspondent Randall Pinkston reports.
“We call it a gold rush. People would come in and bring me their scrap gold,” said Bob Wolf, the store’s owner. “That’s what we call it in the business - it’s half an earring, [...]
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Dec
Psychedelia was intended to be seen as well as heard and felt, and high above the rolling hills and vineyards of Sonoma County, north of San Francisco, lives Stanley Mouse, who, along with others, painted, printed, airbrushed and immortalised the Haight Ashbury years into a series of images - concert posters for the Avalon or [...]
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Dec
GORDON SAMUELS was a NSW Supreme Court judge of intellectual
distinction with a deep interest in fairness, a university
chancellor whose wit and light touch tempered the authority of his
position, and the first governor of NSW not to live in Government
House.
His appointment as governor by the premier, Bob Carr, in 1996
came with the announcement that he and [...]
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Dec
“Washington State: The Inaugural Decade, 1889-1899″ by Robert E. Ficken (Washington State University Press, $21.95). The Issaquah-based historian follows up his book “Washington Territory” with a look at our state’s tumultuous first decade, which included a financial panic and a four-year-long economic depression, followed by a sudden boom ushered in by the 1897 Klondike gold [...]
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