Utah businessman Dell Loy Hansen paid $1.32 million for a dime at a Chicago coin auction. The 10-cent dime is the 1894-S Barber Dime, one of only nine coins that are confirmed to exist. The $1.32M- worth dime is one of only 24 that were ever made, and Hansen just paid a whopping amount of cash for it. Hansen is an avid coin collector, and his means of living provides enough for his passionate hobby, as he is the owner of the Real Salt Lake MLS team.
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The spooky season is right around the corner, and if you’re looking for this year’s costume inspiration, or just plain curious about what people wore during Halloween parties before cosplaying anime characters or coming in dressed up like an alien in green spandex was a thing, check out Glamour’s showcase of women’s halloween costumes over the years. Regardless of gender, I believe anyone can pull of a magician’s robes just fine!
Disney banned ice cubes last March 2019 as part of their project to manage crowds better and streamline bag checks at security areas. Ice cubes being banned from the park is likely thanks to a 2013 dry-ice bomb. Dry-ice bombs can explode and shoot shards of dry ice or pieces of the container, which can cause harm and injury. Even though ice cubes and dry ice are banned from the theme park, visitors can still bring ice packs for coolers, and cups of ice are free of charge at quick-service restaurants. It’s better to be safe than sorry after all!
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Fifty-six women comprise 14% total of the Forbes’ 400 list of the wealthiest Americans, who together have a jaw-dropping combined net worth of $2.96 trillion. The richest woman in America is Alice Walton, the daughter of Walmart founder Sam Walton, with a net worth of $51.4 billion. She is joined by newcomers Julia Koch and her children, MacKenzie Bezos, Janice McNair, and Margot Birmingham Perot. Surprisingly, the famous celebrity billionaire Kylie Jenner, with a net worth of $1 billion, did not make the $2.1 billion threshold for this annual list.
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Russian miners found a rare Matryoshka diamond that may be over 800 million years old. The rare “double diamond” resembles a traditional Russian Matryoshka doll, with the stone composed of a diamond within a diamond. The stone was mined at Nyurba mining and processing division of ALROSA in Yakutia and scientists and experts claimed the discovery as the first “diamond within a diamond” unearthed in the history of global diamond mining, as Geek.com detailed:
Yakutsk Diamond Trade Enterprise found this mysterious diamond during a sorting process and they turned it in to the Research and Development Geological Enterprise of ALROSA, where it was studied with several methods, including X-ray microtomography, Raman, and infrared spectroscopies. Scientists hypothesized that there was an internal diamond at first and the external one developed during the stages of growth.
“The most interesting thing for us was to find out how the air space between the inner and outer diamonds was formed. We have two main hypotheses. According to the first version, a mantle mineral captured a diamond during its growth, and later it was dissolved in the Earth’s surface,” said Oleg Kovalchuk, deputy director for innovations at ALROSA’s Research and Development Geological Enterprise. “According to the second version, a layer of porous polycrystalline diamond substance was formed inside the diamond because of ultra-fast growth, and more aggressive mantle processes subsequently dissolved it. Due to the presence of the dissolved zone, one diamond began to move freely inside another on the principle of [the] Matryoshka nesting doll.”
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The Splash News and Picture Agency has filed a $150,000 lawsuit against Jennifer Lopez for sharing one of their photos in an Instagram Story without their permission two years ago. The photo showed Lopez and her fiance Alex Rodriguez walking in New York City, and according to the lawsuit filed in US District Court for the Central District of California, the singer-actress never had the permission to post the photograph. With the lawsuit being filed two years after the photo was posted, and the huge sum of money involved, the media definitely has it eyes on this lawsuit, as PetaPixel detailed:
The lawsuit does state that Lopez was notified of the infringement “through her representatives” via letter on December 12th, 2017, but since the Instagram story disappeared 24 hours after it was posted, Lopez representatives may not have taken the letter seriously.
“At the time Lopez copied and distributed the photograph, she knew or should have known she did not have authorization or permission to do so,” claims the lawsuit. And since the @jlo account boasts over 100 million followers as of this writing, the agency maintains that “defendant’s unauthorized use harms the existing and future market for the original Photograph” by making the photo “immediately available to Lopez’s tens of millions followers.”
Splash is seeking $150,000 in damages, and an injunction against Lopez and her team stating that they cannot post the photo again.
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Popular luxury brand Louis Vuitton is partnering with Riot Games to offer specially-designed champion skins and a capsule collection by famed French designer and LV creative director Nicolas Ghesquière. This partnership allows the players of League of Legends to spend their Riot Points on some avatar luxury items, which may be the closest they can get (at the moment) to wearing something from Louis Vuitton. In addition to the champion skins and the capsule collection, the Summoner’s Cup, an acclaimed esports trophy, will be encased in a Vuitton-designed travel trunk.
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We’ve seen Hollywood’s attempt at adapting Japanese anime, and no, that Dragonball movie doesn’t exist at all. Some like it, some don’t. The majority still turn back to the original creations and wonder why Hollywood (even with the source material) can’t get their adaptations right. Jeff Gomez, the founding CEO of Starlight Runner Entertainment, a production company that is now introducing “Ultraman” to Western studios, believes that cultural difference can be the one to blame:
“Japanese shows didn’t talk down to you,” he tells me on a call during a business trip to Los Angeles. “They were serious in tone and treated me seriously intellectually. I was an avid reader, so I read all the show credits. As a kid I knew the names Osamu Tezuka and Go Nagai. They were called ‘celebrated creators’ in the English-language write-ups. That was very different from the U.S. model, where most of the writers were just hired hands.”
Even today, the authority Japan confers upon writers and artists often trips up American licensees, who think that wining and dining studio heads and publishing CEOs is all that’s required to seal a deal. It’s what “Pokemon” producer Masakazu Kubo of Shogakukan once told me was America’s “Walmart model,” where “the retailers buy cheap, sell cheap in massive amounts — and they take all the money. They don’t care who made the product.”
(via The Japan Times)
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A man was arrested on suspicion of stalking a female pop idol. The 26-year-old man, named Hibiki Sato was her “avid fan”, and looked at the reflections of her pupils in photos and used Google Street View to find where she lived. The pupil images were not only used to identify where the idol lived, but also to identify the train station the 20 year-old woman frequented.
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Margaret Nazon spent the past decade creating beadwork depictions of outer space, inspired by images taken in outer space. Nazon sets her work on black fabric backgrounds, to emphasize the beautiful and detailed depiction of galaxies, planets, and nebulae. Her expertise in her creative and detailed depictions of these celestial objects come from her long experience of beading, starting at the age of ten, as Colossal detailed:
The artist explained to Glenbow that because she is retired, she is able to dedicate significant portions of time to beading, and often rises at 4:30 to begin working. Nazon plans to continue experimenting, including merging her abstract beadwork with her seamstress skills to create artfully embellished apparel.
Nazon’s artwork was most recently exhibited at Glenbow in a group show, Cosmos, and A Beaded Universe at Prince of Wales Northern Heritage Centre.
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A new part of The Tale of Genji was found in a house in Tokyo. The Tale of Genji was completed around the year 1010 by a woman later named by historians as Murasaki Shikibu, and is considered as the world’s first novel. The original manuscript of the work no longer exists, but the oldest transcribed copies of the story are believed to be done by the poet Teika. The work consisted of four parts until the fifth part was discovered on an oblong chest in a storeroom of the residence of Motofuyu Okochi (a descendant of a former feudal lord), as The Guardian detailed:
The manuscript had been kept in an oblong chest in a storeroom at the Tokyo home of Motofuyu Okochi, a descendant of the former feudal lord of the Mikawa-Yoshida Domain in Aichi Prefecture, the Japan Times reported.
Experts at Reizeike Shiguretei Bunko, a foundation for the preservation of cultural heritage, have now confirmed its authenticity, with the handwriting of the text, and the cover of the manuscript, identical to other Teika manuscripts. The foundation said although the newly-found manuscript “mostly” matches the common version of the story, there are some grammatical differences.
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A 25-year-old woman went to the hospital the day after she took her medicine for a toothache, complaining of weakness and her blue skin. Not only did her skin turn blue, but also her blood. Dr. Otis Warren, the ER doctor who treated her explained that the woman’s skin and blood turned blue because the medicine she took contained benzocaine, and she took too much of the medicine. The medicine triggered a condition called methemoglobinemia, as The Cut detailed:
Methemoglobinemia happens when not enough oxygen gets to your blood cells, and can be caused by certain antibiotics, drugs, toxins, contaminated well water, or genetics. Dr. Otis Warren, the emergency room doctor who treated the woman, told NBC News that it happened because the numbing medicine she took contained benzocaine, and she’d “used a whole lot of it.” (Must have been a terrible toothache.) The doctor also said he recognized her symptoms from a past patient whose methemoglobinemia was caused by an antibiotic. “The skin color looked exactly the same,” Warren said. “You see it once, and it stays in your mind.”
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Italian astronaut Luca Parmitano will cheer for his team from the International Space Station as it orbits some 400 km above the Earth. Parmitano will watch from space as they take on South Africa in their Rugby World Cup clash. It seems that this is not the first time Parmitano will break new grounds in space, as Reuters shares that he was the first person to DJ in space as he played a set from the ISS for an Ibiza club.
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Jared Leto thinks his head got lost. Not his actual head of course, but the head he brought to the recent MET Gala. The actor, in an interview with GQ, revealed that he has no idea where the replica of his face is. The head he brought to the event to tie in his Gucci look at the 2019 MET Gala costs about €25,000, as W magazine detailed:
But when GQ’s Rachel Tashjian asked Leto what he did with the copy of his head after the Met Gala, he said that doesn’t know where it went. “Honestly, I have no idea,” said Leto. “I think someone may have stolen it. If anyone out there finds it, bring it in to your nearest Gucci store in exchange for a pair of dirty sneakers.”
If somebody really did steal the head, it doesn’t seem like Leto will get it back. Makinarium, the Italian special effects firm that made the heads for the original Gucci show, told The Cut that each head cost about €25,000, though they could swing it for €10,000.
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DougDoug cooks real dishes based from the hit game Legend of Zelda : Breath of the Wild. Watch as they do it as seen from the game, from throwing ingredients into a boiling pot of water to creating scrumptious dishes that they happily eat for the camera. Who knows, you might also take some pointers and finally cook your favourite Zelda-inspired dishes or just laugh at the sheer hilarity of it all.
