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80Top 10 Museums of the world-#1 The Hermitage
This is my first hub in the series of hubs-Top 10 museums of the world. Museum #1: The Hermitage, Saint Petersburg, Russia I decided to write this series of hubs about the top 10 best museums in the...
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73Faberge Eggs - History and Auction Sales
Peter Carl Faberge was commissioned to create the first egg for the twentieth wedding anniversary of Alexander III and his wife Maria Feodorovna in 1885. Every subsequent Easter, another egg was made for Maria...
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57faberge-eggs
Faberge was granted the imperial warrant, supplier to the imperial court, around 1885, presumably after delivery of the first Easter egg to Alexander III. The imperial warrant permitted Faberge to use the...
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60The Code
"The Code", released in 2009, is a fabulous crime movie. The crime involves crime-world intrigue, 2 Faberge Eggs worth 20 million each, and a devout New York City Police Department Lieutenant Weber (Robert...
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77Easter Eggs
Since ancient times, eggs have always been a symbol of life and fertility, with spring as the time when most birds in the wild lay eggs from which, a few weeks later with new little birds hatch. It is no...
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62"The Double Eagle," by James Twining
The Double Eagle is a novel with a distinctly international flavour. It powers along from the US, to the UK, France, The Netherlands and Turkey. When an elderly priest's body is found floating in the Seine in...
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