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A rough and ready guide to dating English drinking glasses from the 19
This guide is an aid to dating wine and other drinking glasses made inEngland during the 19th Century. It covers some of the basic concepts to considerwhen trying to identify the age of a glass and considers some definitions relatingto type and condition. Oct 18 2004 01:00 GMT

Antique Price Guides. First lets talk about how price guides come up w
There are three ways prices get into guide books: Prices are taken from auction results. Guide prices are observed at shows, stores, and within advertisements. Prices are gathered by surveying dealers. Most antiques price guides are compiled using a combination of the three methods listed above. Using a combination and averaging the results is the only way to get reliable information. http://vialin.com Daily Press. Sep 23 2004 02:14 GMT

March 15: DIARY OF A CRITIC: Art Reviews from Around New York by John
I am not an art critic. Cross my heart. At least, I can never admit it without bending the truth and ducking. People need critics, to know where to go and where not to go on a Saturday afternoon and when it is safe to laugh... John Haber is an editor and writer living in New York. Mar 15 2005 5:41 GMT

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

 

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