Treasure of Spanish Main to Go on Auction Block
A 1715 eight real silver coin found near Cape Canaveral in 1955 by Kip Wagner, part of a larger treasure from a 1715 hurricane wreck, will be auctioned February 4 at Seville auctions. The haul, including over 14 million pesos in silver, reflects a famed Spanish treasure voyage bound for Cadiz from Havana.
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Spanish Main
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Spain
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Seville
Havanna
Cadiz
Salvage sale highlights sunken fleets and antique treasures
In a Florida salvage operation led by Real Eight Corp and partners, auction proceeds fund further exploration after a hurricane wreckage. Items include Abilla’s emblem of office on a gold chain, a 1714 Ankenes toad minted with Philip V marks, and romantic relics like Kangxi tea bowls, a parrot, and Mexican coins recovered from sunken hulks.
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Florida
Abilla
Pacific
Mexico
Hurricane Cabin
Mexico City
Story Magazine reshapes under Four Winds Press with new board
Story Magazine will switch to a quarterly format in April under Four Winds Press. The editorial board led by John Pope will broaden focus to poetry drama film television and novellas while continuing the Story Creative Awards Contest. The first issue includes Norman Mailer and poets Irving Layton Leonard Cohen and Jean Goldschmidt with an expanded College Contest offering up to 6650 in prizes. May 5 is the closing date for the 1966 67 contest.
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J. D. Salinger
Norman Mailer
William Saroyan
Tennessee Williams
Richard Wright
Truman Capote
Joseph Heller
Story Magazine
Four Winds Press
Scholastic Magazines Inc
Story
Whit
Hallie Burnett
John Pope
St. Martin’s Press
George Dickerson
New Yorker
Cavalier
Canada
Irving Layton
Leonard Cohen
Jean Goldschmidt
Discovery
United States
Geordie: Son Vs. Father
Robert Murphy’s novel follows Geordie a Iowa teen torn between his father’s wish for a legal career and his passion for nature. He studies zoology, joins a Pacific island expedition, and a crew crisis tests loyalties amid vivid nature scenes.
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Iowa
Geordie
Pacific
Murphy
Bernstein Weighs Opera Broadway Fusion Challenge
Leonard Bernstein, 48, NY Philharmonic director, explores a form blending opera and Broadway. He points to a Kennedy Center commission with a 1969 deadline and contemplates a new music drama or opera while pursuing ongoing composing, possibly returning to West Side Story’s mode. He notes limited time for creation due to long seasons and sabbaticals, and recalls Trouble in Tahiti as his opera-leaning work.
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New York
West Side Story
Philharmonic
Washington, D. C
Destruc
Kennedy Center
Met
Bernstein
Tahiti
Aenee Aces
Benjamin Brith
Peter Grimes
Ponce
Bohemianism in America A Informal History Of It
Emily Hahn traces American Bohemianism from Greenwich Village through the West and Chicago in a wide ranging informal history. It surveys writers like Poe Whitman London and Hearn alongside editors and radicals, noting changes in rebellion and culture.
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America
Emily Hahn
Houghton, Mifflin
Miss Hahn
New York
Greenwich Village
Poe
Whitman
Try
West
Bret Harte
Joaquin Miller
Ambrose Bierce
Jone Wolf Lafcadio Hearn
Wolf James G. Huneker
Jack London
Chicago
Maxwell Bodenheim
Edna Millay
Of Major Historical Interest MEN AND MOMENTS
A Henry J. Taylor collection titled Of Major Historical Interest offers 46 selections spanning prewar and wartime moments. It covers figures from Hess to Ataturk and includes topics from French literature to Broadway, Wall Street, and leaders like Jefferson, Lee, Napoleon, and Castro.
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Henry J. Taylor
Random
Nazi Hess
Ataturk
Zschau to Sing leading Role in Die tote Stadt Vienna
Marilyn Zschau mezzo-soprano native of Raleigh wins leading female part in Korngold Die tote Stadt at Vienna Volksoper May. Jeritza premiered the role in New York and Jeritza watched Zschau's audition. Zschau a UNC alumna and former North Carolina Symphony collaborator, has sung at the Met NP Company and with Verdi and Strauss roles.
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Z. Melnikov Enterprise
Marilyn Zschau
Raleigh
Korngold
Vienna
Volksoper
Maria Jeritza
Metrotan Opera
Madame Jertza
George Korngold
Miss Zschau
University of North Carolina
North Carolina Symphony
School of Christmas
Metropolitan Opera National Company
Rossini
Suzuki
Mercedes
Amneris
Jancek
Katya Kabanova
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This is just the beginning! Our collection holds over 300 years of history, including rare newspapers, obituaries, marriage records, birth records, and so much more—most of which you won’t find anywhere else!