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Commercial property on New London Turnpike in Coventry sold for $9,215,000. A Narragansett home on Bass Rock Road recently ...
A new documentary about Hollywood legend Elizabeth Taylor covers a lot more than just Liz and Dick. There’s Liz, Dick, Conrad ...
Jeweler Harry Winston donated the famous Hope Diamond—the largest-known deep blue diamond in the world—to the Smithsonian Institution in 1958. It arrived in a plain brown package by registered ...
In one of the busiest afterlives in history, she has become an asteroid, a video game, a cigarette, a slot machine, a strip club, a synonym for Elizabeth Taylor. Shakespeare attested to Cleopatra ...
The Hope Diamond is one of the most-viewed museum pieces in the world, but visitors never witness the mysterious red glow it emits when exposed to ultraviolet light. Although researchers have long ...
Dorothy’s Ruby Slippers, the Wright Flyer, the Hope Diamond: Each gives me chills—an electrifying sense of encountering the past. Some of the proudest moments of my professional career have ...
To welcome Miss Piggy, Smithsonian magazine’s editors treated her to a photo shoot featuring two of the Institution’s most valued treasures—Dorothy's Ruby Slippers and the Hope Diamond.
In ancient India, it was thought that diamonds were created when bolts of lightning struck rocks. There was a saying: ‘He who wears a diamond will see danger turn away.’ For the Egyptians, diamonds ...
In this heartfelt wildlife documentary, a volunteer conservationist and an endangered critter develop a parent-child connection. By Jeannette Catsoulis The film “1-800-ON-HER-OWN” follows the ...