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In 1987, New World acquired educational film company Learning Corporation of America and independent film studio Highgate Pictures. [13] By this time New World Pictures changed its name to New World Entertainment to better reflect its range of subsidiaries besides the film studio, including its purchase of Marvel Comics, and partner Harry Sloan ...
NGC-certified Peace dollar from the Binion Hoard. The Binion Hoard was American gambling executive Ted Binion's collection of silver and silver dollars. Binion had a safe installed 12 ft (3.7 m) deep in the ground of a vacant lot that he owned in Pahrump, Nevada, United States. In the safe he stored his 46,000 pounds (21,000 kg) of silver ...
Cinco Saltos in Río Negro has been reported to have a number of ghosts, most of them reportedly the result of witchcraft.In 2009, an intact corpse of an 8- to 12-year-old girl who had died in the 1930s was found in a cemetery ossuary.
The center of the world or the connection between Heaven and Earth in various religions and mythologies. Aztlán: Legendary original homeland of the Mexica people in Mexica/Aztec mythology. Bald Mountain: A location in Slavic folk mythology related to witchcraft. Baltia: An island of amber somewhere in northern Europe. Biringan city
Archaeologists recently concluded their excavation of an area in Luxembourg that contained a hoard of 141 ancient Roman coins, now worth six figures in modern U.S. dollars.
[1] [2] [3] According to Podolyn, in 1761 he met in Madrid the historian and numismatist Enrique Flórez who gave him nine coins from Carthage (two gold and five bronze) and two from Cyrene (bronze), which Flórez said were from a hoard discovered in 1749 in a black pot or vase after being washed out of the foundations of a building by a storm ...
Munch's Death and the Child (1899) from the collection of the Kunsthalle Bremen. According to urban legend, a particular 1899 copy of Edvard Munch's painting Death and the Child (sometimes known as The Dead Mother [11]) is cursed. Viewers have described the horrified girl's eyes following them as they move, and hearing a soft rustling sound ...
The video game Europa Universalis IV has the El Dorado expansion which gives colonizing nations the ability to hunt for the Seven Cities of Gold in the New World. In the turn-based strategy game Sid Meier's Colonization (1994), scouting lost city ruins (tiles in the map) may result in finding one or more of the Seven Cities of Cibola, granting ...