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Meet Digital Artist Lynda Elliott - Photographic Vision. Vialin.com Pr
My digital art work offers a broad spectrum of subject matter and styles. All pieces begin with digital photographs that stand alone, or they are transformed into something slightly different, or totally abstract, using the latest design software. http://Vialin.com Daily Press. Aug 23 2004 02:05 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

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

January 22: George Washington portrait in private hand sold $21.3 at C
The only portrait in private hands painted by Paele between 1779 and 1781 reached more than double expected: $10 million and was purchased by art dealer Prickett, C.L. The portrait is part of a collection of an eight full-length portraits. January 22 2006 04:15 GMT

 

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