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In 2025, experts linked Mark Sell’s nine-inch-deep Norfolk find: The wider industry impact

AI Representation: Medieval Bishop Ring Auctioned. Image credits: Chatgpt

In 2013, Oprah Winfrey gave $12 million to a Smithsonian museum; 13 years later, its 350-seat

A $12 million donation from Oprah Winfrey to the Smithsonian Institution continues to support public [...]

LeBron James pledged $2.5 million in November 2016 to the Muhammad Ali exhibit

LeBron James. Image via: Allen J. Schaben/ Los Angeles Times via Getty Images

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Santa Barbara Island in California and an image of a hare: The wider industry impact

Santa Barbara Island in California and an image of a hare. Credits - Wikimedia Commons

Unlike pandas, Indian elephants are social, intelligent, enormously: The wider industry impact

The panda relationship subsequently became more sophisticated – and more expensive. China stopped giving pandas [...]

In the 1960s, dinner in a typical American home was a predictable, comforting ritual

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Edmund Fitzgerald and a plank from Lifeboat 1, and the buyer was not publicly identified

SS Edmund Fitzgerald | Wikimedia Commons

When James Baldwin arrived in Paris on November 11, 1948, he was 24 years old and had just $40

​James Baldwin

Structural problems forced it to close completely in 2004, followed by years of deterioration

The Smithsonian Arts and Industries Building in 2021. (Matt McClain/The Washington Post)