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Wondering about original Antique Restoration Hardware. http://vialin.c
Are Hardware Restorers difficult to find. Wondering about Hardware Restoration: Door knobs, furniture hardware, architectural, Steamer trunks, Victrola Phonographs and Furniture. Find Robinson Antiques and Shenandoah Antique Restoration listed at VL Antiques Restorers. http://vialin.com Daily Press. Sep 03 2004 04:00 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 methodslisted 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 24: A Walk Through Baku National Carpet Museum. http://vialin.
While touring Baku, you are likely to discover that many of its museums are found in buildings that were constructed for entirely different purposes. Take the former Lenin museum, for instance. As with corresponding Lenin museums in other Soviet republics, Baku version once displayed items related to Lenin life: letters, speeches, telegrams - even replicas of his clothing.Jan 24 2005 4:48 GMT