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[9 Aug 2010 | No Comment | ]
Snoopy Gets Blinged Up

To commemorate Snoopy’s 60th anniversary, Hong Kong’s Fine Jewelry Brand, TSL has made a stunning 207 Carat Diamond Snoopy.
The Diamond Snoopy is 5.5 inches tall and is festooned with 9,917 diamonds, 783 black diamonds and 415 rubies.
It took 8 months to complete and its proposed retail price is HK $2,888,880 (US $370,380). What a way to celebrate a character…

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[7 Aug 2010 | No Comment | ]
Madonna Borrows Roman Abramovich’s Yacht

Madonna has borrowed Roman Abramovich’s brand new yacht “Luna” while filming W.E., the new Duke of Windsor movie she’s directing in the South of France.
The luxurious yacht provides convenient accommodation for Madonna as she films the movie’s beach scenes, London’s Daily Mail reports. With a swimming pool, sunbathing deck, gaming area and two helipads, the 115m boat is the largest expedition yacht in the world.
Abramovich also recently bought the $488 million super yacht Eclipse,  complete with missile-detection system, two helipads, luxury spa, swimming pool and miniature submarine. You can read …

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[5 Aug 2010 | No Comment | ]
Champagne Shipwreck Saga Continues

Continuing from the story where the World’s Oldest Champagne was found in a shipwreck, as it turns out, the two century old bottle of champagne found in a shipwreck at the bottom of the Baltic tastes great but is not from the house of Veuve Clicquot.
Last month Swedish divers working off Finland found 30 bottles perfectly preserved at a depth of 55 metres or 180 feet, perhaps part of a consignment sent by France’s King Louis XVI to the Russian Imperial Court.
Because the corks still retained a trace of an …

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[22 Jul 2010 | No Comment | ]
World Cup Final Ball Sold On eBay

The ball used in Spain’s World Cup final win over the Netherlands has fetched almost $74,000 in a charity auction on eBay.
The famous Jabulani ball was sold for the ‘46664′ HIV/AIDS charity – named after Nelson Mandela’s prisoner number when he was held at Robben Island. The balls used during the World Cup were critiqued for their unpredictability and were nicknamed “supermarket balls”
The gold version used in the final was named ‘Jo’bulani’ because the game was played in Johannesburg, known colloquially as Jo’burg. A total of 133 bids from 55 …