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From Skulls to Straitjackets, This Is Your One-Stop Shop

(Nov. 2) -- Selling oddities is, well, an odd job. Just ask the folks at New York City's Obscura Antiques & Oddities, who have been acquiring and selling bizarre objects in Manhattan's East Village since 1991. "We deal in the odd and unusual, and we deal with the odd and unusual," co-owner Mike Zohn told AOL News. "A lot...

Churchill's Choppers Auctioned for $23,723

(July 30) -- When Winston Churchill told the British Parliament he had "nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears and sweat," he was talking about the prospects of war, but he could have just as easily been referring to his dental work. Seems Churchill had serious dental problems since childhood and needed dentures to...

Background on victorian

The Victorian era of British history was the period of Queen Victoria's reign from 20 June 1837 until her death on 22 January 1901. It was a long period of peace, prosperity, refined sensibilities and national self-confidence for Britain.

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