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Canada's historic Hudson's Bay Company charter sells for $18m to billionaire families

Historic charter fetches record $18m at auction Two of Canada's wealthiest families have purchased the 1670 Hudson's Bay Company Royal Charter for C$18 million ($13 million; £9.6 million), ensuri...

#Business #Heritage #History #Indigenous Rights

2 days ago

Imperial Fabergé Winter Egg fetches record £22.9m at London auction

Record-breaking sale of historic Fabergé egg A Fabergé egg once owned by Russia's imperial family sold for £22.9 million ($30.2 million) in London on Tuesday, setting a new auction record for the...

#History #Art #Luxury #Auction

6 days ago

Australia’s Albanese Weds Partner in Historic In-Office Ceremony

Australia's Albanese Weds Partner in Historic In-Office Ceremony Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese married his longtime partner, Jodie Haydon, on Saturday in Canberra, marking the first...

#Politics #Government #History #Marriage

1 week ago

Study reveals cats were domesticated in northern Africa, not the Levant

Cats' domestication traced to northern Africa, not the Levant New genetic research overtuns long-held assumptions about feline domestication, pinpointing northern Africa-not the Levant-as the ori...

#Archaeology #History #Genetics #Domestication #Zoology

1 week ago

Titanic passenger’s gold pocket watch sells for record £1.78m at auction

Titanic passenger's gold pocket watch fetches record £1.78m at auction A gold pocket watch recovered from the body of Isidor Straus, one of the wealthiest passengers aboard the Titanic, sold for...

#Maritime #History #Auctions #Collectibles #Disasters

2 weeks ago

French court halts auction of Pascal’s 17th-century calculating machine

French court halts auction of Pascal's 17th-century calculating machine A Paris administrative court has temporarily blocked the export and auction of La Pascaline, a groundbreaking 1642 calculat...

#Technology #Law #Cultural Heritage #History #Auctions

2 weeks ago

Ashes 2025: The weight of the first ball in cricket’s fiercest rivalry

The first ball of the Ashes carries more than just a delivery The opening ball of the Ashes series is more than a single moment-it's a high-stakes preamble that can echo through the entire compet...

#Sports #Psychology #Cricket #History #Rivalry

2 weeks ago

Klimt portrait fetches $236.4m at New York auction, second-highest ever

Klimt portrait sells for $236.4m, second-highest auction price in history A 1914-1916 portrait by Austrian artist Gustav Klimt sold for $236.4 million (£179 million) at a Sotheby's auction in New...

#Cultural Heritage #History #Art #Auctions #Nazi Looting

2 weeks ago

Hitler’s DNA analysis reveals genetic disorders but sparks ethical debate

Hitler's DNA analysis reveals genetic disorders but sparks ethical debate A groundbreaking DNA analysis of Adolf Hitler's blood, extracted from an 80-year-old fabric swatch taken from his Berlin...

#War Crimes #Research #Neuroscience #Documentary #History #Genetics #Ethics

3 weeks ago

Ghana’s Asante king receives 130 returned artefacts from UK and South Africa

Ghana's Asante king receives 130 returned artefacts from UK and South Africa Ghana's Asante king, Otumfuo Osei Tutu II, has welcomed the return of 130 gold and bronze artefacts from the UK an...

#Diplomacy #Cultural Heritage #History #Mining #Colonialism #Art #Restitution

3 weeks ago

England’s 1962 Ashes voyage: Sea legs, shipboard feasts and a lost Test debut

England's 1962 Ashes voyage: A month at sea before the battle for the urn As Ben Stokes and his England squad arrive in Perth ahead of the 2025-26 Ashes-greeted by front-page tabloid scrutiny and...

#Travel #Cricket #History #Sporting Culture #Ashes Series #1960s #Tour Life

3 weeks ago

Sunderland’s Unconventional Tactic: Moving Hoardings to Thwart Arsenal’s Long Throws

Sunderland's Late Equalizer Overshadowed by Tactical Maneuver Against Arsenal Sunderland secured a dramatic 1-1 draw with Premier League leaders Arsenal on Saturday, thanks to Brian Brobbey's...

#Football #Premier League #Sports Psychology #Controversy #History #Soccer #Tactics

3 weeks ago

King Charles III leads Remembrance Sunday ceremonies in London

King Charles III leads national tribute at Cenotaph King Charles III led the United Kingdom in a two-minute silence at 11:00 GMT on Sunday during the National Service of Remembrance at London's C...

#History #Monarchy #Remembrance #Veterans #Ceremony

3 weeks ago

Kenyan soldier’s 85-year disappearance solved by British war records

Long-lost Kenyan soldier's fate uncovered after 85 years A Kenyan man who vanished without explanation in the 1940s has been identified as a World War Two casualty, his family learned this week a...

#War #Military #Africa #History #Colonialism #Archives #Remembrance #World War Two

1 month ago

New York elects first Indian-origin mayor, echoing Nehru’s historic words

New York elects first Indian-origin mayor, invoking Nehru's 1947 independence speech New York City made history Wednesday as Zohran Mamdani, the son of Ugandan-Indian scholar Mahmood Mamdani and...

#Immigration #Elections #Politics #Culture #Leadership #History #Diaspora

1 month ago

North Korea’s Kim Yong Nam, longtime diplomat and ceremonial leader, dies at 97

North Korea's Kim Yong Nam, longtime diplomat and ceremonial leader, dies at 97 Kim Yong Nam, North Korea's former ceremonial head of state and a career diplomat under three generations of the ru...

#Diplomacy #Politics #Death #North Korea #History

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Canada's historic Hudson's Bay Company charter sells for $18m to billionaire families

Imperial Fabergé Winter Egg fetches record £22.9m at London auction

Australia’s Albanese Weds Partner in Historic In-Office Ceremony

Study reveals cats were domesticated in northern Africa, not the Levant

Titanic passenger’s gold pocket watch sells for record £1.78m at auction

French court halts auction of Pascal’s 17th-century calculating machine

Ashes 2025: The weight of the first ball in cricket’s fiercest rivalry

Klimt portrait fetches $236.4m at New York auction, second-highest ever

Hitler’s DNA analysis reveals genetic disorders but sparks ethical debate

Ghana’s Asante king receives 130 returned artefacts from UK and South Africa

England’s 1962 Ashes voyage: Sea legs, shipboard feasts and a lost Test debut

Sunderland’s Unconventional Tactic: Moving Hoardings to Thwart Arsenal’s Long Throws

King Charles III leads Remembrance Sunday ceremonies in London

Kenyan soldier’s 85-year disappearance solved by British war records

New York elects first Indian-origin mayor, echoing Nehru’s historic words

North Korea’s Kim Yong Nam, longtime diplomat and ceremonial leader, dies at 97

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