Mementoes from the Titanic put up for sale by the last remaining survivor to help pay for her nursing home fees have fetched over £30,000, auctioneers said.
Millvina Dean was forced to sell a 100-year-old suitcase filled with clothes which was given to her family by the people of New York when they arrived in America after being rescued.
The 96-year-old also auctioned rare prints of the fated cruise liner which have been signed by the artists along with compensation letters sent to her mother by the Titanic Relief Fund.
The suitcase today fetched £10,800, the prints £9,250 and the letters sold for £11,100. They went under the hammer at Henry Aldridge and Son auctioneers in Devizes, Wiltshire.
In total they made £31,150 - more than ten times the amount Miss Dean had said she hoped to raise.
Auctioneer Andrew Aldridge said:
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Scientists say invisibility cloaks, like Harry Potter’s, could be reality within five years.
Sir John Pendry, of Imperial College, London, says a cloaking device could make light waves flow around an object - just as a river flows around a rock.
He added that a cloaking material might not take long to develop, assuming there is sufficient research.
“If there is adequate funding, I’d have thought it would take in the order of five years,” he said.
In a study published in the journal Science, Sir John explained how artificial composite materials called metamaterials could hide a person, or guide light around an eyesore which ruins a view.
These materials could be “tuned” in such a way that when electromagnetic waves encountered the cloaking device they would produce neither a reflection nor a shadow, said Sir John.
“Metamaterials can be designed to have properties difficult or impossible to find in nature,” said Sir John.
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A tiny mouse was thrown into a cage as food for a viper - but turned the tables and killed the snake instead.
Firefighters in Nantou town, Taiwan, caught the 35cm snake and put it into a mouse cage for safe-keeping.
“We then found it a mouse for lunch,” a spokesman for the team told Apple Daily.
But the firefighters were stunned to see how aggressive the mouse became once it saw the predator in the cage.
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Photos of a huge snake found by little kids in Ecuador …
Let’s just say that the adults were less happy to see the creature!
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As a supplement to running costs on petrol,some motorcyclists are strapping gas cyclinders to the sides of their bikes which basically are like a bomb between your legs…
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The news just keeps getting weirder and weirder! First the Monster of Montauk, then el Chupacabra… now, they’ve evidently found Bigfoot in Georgia.
According to the Post Chronicle, a group called “Searching for Bigfoot, Inc” has scheduled a press conference for Friday, and a hotel in Palo Alto, California where they claim they will be able to provide DNA evidence as well as picutures of the creature (like this one his body crammed in a freezer).
The press release, also released on their website, describes the hybrid “manimal” as over seven and a half feet tall, male and weighs over 500 pounds. This alleged Bigfoot” has reddish hair and blackish-grey eyes, two arms, two legs and five fingers and five toes right and left - just as you’d expect.
Bigfoot was evidently found by Matthew Whitton (who also goes by the name Gary Parker) and Rick Dyer in the woods in northern Georgia. They aren’t giving out the exact location to respect the living members of the species. We’ll hear their story at Friday’s press conference.
Does this mean some Georgia hillbilly screwed one of their animals? Ugh.
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4) Diet Water: all the taste and none of the calories of regular water. Huh?
And now, from the “selling ice to the Eskimos” department, we bring you Diet Water: the soft drink for the soft headed. “None of that rich, fattening Perrier for me, I’m serious about shedding pounds!” Not to mention shedding money. “Diet Water of the rich and famous”? We’re not sure what the appeal of Diet Water is… maybe it has negative calories.
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