"There were thousands of books: first editions, engineering texts, old atlases, older dictionaries, galleys mailed to Hemingway for blurbs, review copies, gifts; many of them had been doodled over by Hemingway himself ... more

"For the Gamester who has everything... more

"A 22-gun British warship that sank during the American Revolution and has long been regarded as one of the "Holy Grail" shipwrecks in the Great Lakes has been discovered... more

"Officers who raided his home seized carved hippo ivory figures, raw elephant tusks, sperm whale teeth and £34,000 in cash.... more

"Rumors about the bottle's provenance began to swirl in the wine world. Did it truly come from a bricked-up cache formerly belonging to Thomas Jefferson? Was it part of a Nazi stash? Or was it a fake?... more

"With stories -- some true, some myths -- abounding of people making huge amounts of money on urban art (Banksy's Riot Green, for example, was bought at his first official exhibition eight years ago with a student loan and is now valued at 150,000 pounds), the movement has become closely followed... more

"Rare Martini-Henry rifles lost in the bloody defeat at Maiwand in July 1880 have been retrieved 128 years later by troops fighting the Taliban and al-Qa'ida in Helmand province... more