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December 26 Pierre and Marie Curie announced the existence of a new el
1898 - Pierre and Marie Curie announced the existence of a new element, later to be named radium. Radium (Latin radius, ray) was discovered by Marie Curie and her husband Pierre in 1898 in pitchblende/uraninite from North Bohemia. While studying pitchblende the Curies removed uranium from it and found that the remaining material was still radioactive. They then separated out a radioactive mixture mostly consisting of barium which gave a brilliant red flame color and spectral lines which had never been documented before. In 1902 radium was isolated into its pure metal by Curie and Andre Debierne through the electrolysis of a pure radium chloride solution by using a mercury cathode and distilling in an atmosphere of hydrogen gas.Dec 26 2004 14:48 GMT

April 07: Rogallery.com will conduct a 400+ lot sale of the contents o
Saturday, April 8th, 2006 at 1:00 PM Eastern, Paintings, Prints, Sculpture and Fine Furniture. 47-15 36th Street, Long Island City, New York 11101 Phone 1-800-888-1063 April 07 2006 02:15 GMT

August 06: Brief history of Capodimone, the ancient Jade, Cloisonne...
The guide include: Capodimonte porcelain, is the finest and most perfect grade of Italian artistic pottery. Ancient Jade, are extremely hard stones -6.5 to 7.0-. They were shaped and carved using ropes and bamboo with grains of sand... August 06 2005 12:15 GMT

Heritage Bookshop - The First Year. by Louis Weinstein http://vialin.c
I was seventeen and working for Deutsch and SheaAdvertising Agency in New York. It was April 5, 1963. The news of my father's death in Gary, Indiana the day before wasn't too painful, for I had hardly known the man. It had been years since I'd seen him; sometimes I would almost forget that I had a father. I knew he had been a good merchant - always making a living, but never more. I believed that by profession he had been a pawnbroker, junk man, TV and radio repairman, appraiser, seller of used clothes and appliances, and trader - all of which he practiced under the name of "Irving's Trading Post." Sep 23 2004 02:14 GMT

 

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