This Qing Dynasty vase, found in an attic in England, just sold at auction for $69.5 million to an anonymous Chinese buyer—the most ever paid for a Chinese antiquity. Some eccentric billionaire just snagged the perfect umbrella holder.
Need a couch for your apartment—one that says "I hate Jews... but I love good engineering"? Well, look no further: An "Authenitic [sic] German engineered Swastika velvet green Couch circa 1937," available on Craigslist for one dollar!
When Mark Twain died in 1910 he left 5,000 pages of memoir with instructions that they be published 100 years after his death. This year! Want to know what part we're most excited about? It involves a turn-of-the-century vibrator.
The Way We Live Now: At the bottom of a bucket metaphor. GM is burning up the money we all gave it as fast as humanly possible. Bread lines are lengthening. But something's still selling: