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Actor Rob Gough paid $5.2 million for a piece of cardboard in January 2021. Well, that’s one way to put it. Another way is to say that he bought a 1952 Topps Mickey Mantle rookie card in mint condition with a PSA 9 rating—1 of 6 known to be in existence. "I always dreamt of owning a 1952 Topps Mickey…

An anonymous man paid $35.00 for a beautiful bowl at a garage sale near New Haven, Connecticut in 2020 and sold it for over $700,000.00 at a Sotheby’s auction. The rare, 15th-century Ming dynasty artifact was expected to fetch “between $300,000.00 and $500,000.00,” but fared much better. What a shame…

When we think about precious stones or minerals, diamonds or gold come to mind, not pearls. Most people are unaware of the high value that a rare or valuable pearl can reach. In 2006, a Filipino angler made an amazing discovery in the sea off the coast of the Palawan Island, in the Philippines. He discovered…

Carla Squitieri was washing dishes. As was her practice, she removed her 12.5-Carat diamond while she washed. Her husband, Bernie accidentally swept it into the garbage. The next day when Carla realized what had happened it was too late. The garbage truck had already collected their trash. Carla thought…

A visit to Arkansas’ Crater of Diamonds State Park turned out to profitable for Susie Clark when she found a diamond the size of pinto bean. She says she plans to keep the diamond and since she found it after saying a prayer, she calls it “Hallelujah Diamond.” Clark says she first visited the park with…

In 1970, an engineer bought a plain looking wooden chest for about $150. All he wanted was something to put his television on. For the next 43 years, the wooden chest, known as the Mazarin chest sat in the man’s living room. What the man did not know about his television stand was that it was hand crafted…

A New York family didn’t know they had bought a rare heirloom, when they purchased a ceramic bowl at a garage sale in 2007. They paid three dollars for the item, and displayed it in their living for several years. Eventually, someone get curious about where the bowl came from, and then discovered that…

A brother and sister from west London found an old vase while cleaning out their parents’ home. They had it appraised and learned it was valued at nearly $2 million. After putting it up for auction, the antique Chinese vase sold for $69.5 million. A representative for the auction house said, “They had…

Pearl hunters off the coast of the Philippines discovered a pearl weighing five pounds. The owners auctioned it with the lower half of the shell in which it grew, the pearl is valued between $300,000 and $400,000. --The Week January 29, 2010, p. 12. Illustration by Jim L. Wilson and Rodger Russell In…

VALUE Miners at the Premier Mine in Cullinan, South Africa recently discovered an egg-sized diamond. The uncut diamond is 507.55 carats, which places it among the top 20 high-quality diamonds ever discovered. Experts say the diamond has exceptional color and clarity, but the value has not been set. --World,…

The Machine Let me characterize the critical nature of hope through a contemporary parable. In fact, to mix things up a bit, let's make it a futuristic parable. Imagine a huge machine, built like a three-story glass building, in the middle of a white desert. In fact, when you first stumble upon it while…

Author: Ion Idriess Book: Lightning Ridge Chapter 13: “Each dawn brough a thrill, it was present in the concentrated activity, the tense hope. Before the sun went down, some must strike opal. One works well, physically and mentally, when striving for some great prize that lies hidden almost within r…

NEW YORK — A painting stolen 20 years ago was found lying in trash along a street, and now it could fetch up to $1 million at auction. Elizabeth Gibson didn't know anything about the brightly colored abstract work she spotted on her morning walk four years ago on Manhattan's Upper West Side. Sotheby's…

"When a man will venture nothing for Christ's sake, we must draw the sorrowful conclusion that he has not got the grace of God." Source: J.C. Ryle, Expository Thoughts on the Gospels: Matthew, London, 1965, pg. 152.

John MacArthur Basisinformationen zur Bibel Christliche Literatur-Verbreitung Postfach 11 01 35 • 33661 Bielefeld Wenn nicht anders angegeben, sind die Bibelzitate der Schlachter 2000 entnommen. Abkürzungen weiterer Bibelausgaben: Elb.: Elberfelder Bibel, unrevidierte Fassung Lu 12: Lutherbibel von 1912…

I. Introduction When God created the universe and all within it, God looked and saw that it was good. At some point, however, evil entered the world and corrupted it. People may have different understandings of how this happened, but I don’t think anyone would argue that the world as we know it is the…

A Christian Guide to Passover (PESCH) Below is a compilation of several contemporary Seder services that are used today. Because of the passage of time and that Passover was intended to be a family tradition, it is not possible to reconstruct with certainty the type of Passover meal or celebration that…