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NASA is selling off a couple of their retired space shuttles for a reasonable price of $42 million, including $6 million for shipping. However, NASA prefers that they end up at a museum or a school.

A picture of Marilyn Monroe sold at a Christies auction for almost $150,000, one of the last pictures taken of her before her death. An Andy Warhol portrait of Marilyn sold for $248,000 at that auction, and many other photos of her were also sold at fairly high prices.

Don't forget to check out the Millionaire Fair , in Istanbul, Turkey, which features luxury automobiles, high end jewelry, and yachts. Even island properties for $5,000,000. There's no recession in the millionaires' club.

A vintage flying car is for sale for only $3.5 million. The vehicle, known as the Aerocar, is only one of six ever made in 1956, and goes 60 mph on the highway and 110 mph in the air.

The front carriage of Europe's first double-looped rollercoaster, the Corkscrew , will be put up for auction. The proceeds will go to charity.

The 1976 white Lotus Esprit sports car from the James Bond movie, "The Spy Who Loved Me", which was driven by Roger Moore, was sold at auction recently by Bonhams Auction House for $165,000.

Yes, a two and a quarter pound fungi truffle (not to be confused with a chocolate truffle) sold at an international auction for $200,000 to Hong Kong casino tycoon Stanley Ho. The auction was held simultaneously in London, Abu Dhabi, Macau and Rome.

1. 100 shares of Berkshire Hathaway What better gift for a billionaire than 100 shares in a company run by one of the richest men in the world, Warren Buffett . Cost based on recent price of $115,490 per share for a total of $11,549,000 plus commission. 2. Patek Philippe 5016 Minute Repeater Perpetual Calendar Platinum Watch The watch has a platinum case, with sapphire crystals both front and back and can be had for $750,000. 3. The William Randolph Hearst and Marion Davies Mansion A 9 bedroom, 20,570 square foot home in Beverly Hills, formerly owned by the famous American newspaper magnate. Asking price: $165,000,000. 4. Royal Diamond Chess Set This chess set from Charles Hollander is hand made with 9,900 black and white diamonds, in over 1168 grams of 14 carat white gold. Price is $500,000. 5. Great Hans Lollik Island Your own private island, with Little Hans Lollik island thrown in for free. Over 500 acres, off of St. Thomas, Virgin Islands, offered by Vladi Private Islands. 6. Re

Holiday shopping is right around the corner. If you want that perfect gift for your wife or girlfriend that you know will never be returned, then get her the Black Diamond Fantasy Miracle Bra . This piece of underwear is embedded with 3,575 black diamonds and 117 one-carat white round diamonds. To top it off, it also has two dangling 100-carat black diamonds. Don't forget to check out the article from a few months ago about the diamond studded thong .

A 1918 stamp, known as the " Inverted Jenny ," and originally issued for 24 cents, will be auctioned by Robert Siegel Auction Galleries in New York. The auctioneers anticipate that the stamp may sell for between $500,000 and $1,000,000. The stamp has a picture of an upside-down image of a Curtiss JN-4H biplane.

Bankrate.com came up with a list of the ten most expensive cars in the world . If you thought a Rolls-Royce would be in the top three, you would be wrong. Number one is the 1,001 horsepower Bugatti Veyron, which can reach 253 mph. The car can be had for a reasonable $1,500,000. In second place is the Pagani Zonda, which sells for $741,000. Third is the Mercedes-Benz SLR McLaren at $503,750.

If you have a spare 3 million British pounds, you can pick up the Saxa Vord leisure complex on the Shetland island of Unst, Britain's northernmost holiday resort. This former RAF base is considered Britain's first "residential, natural and cultural heritage centre".

Yes, you read the title correctly, that's an 18K gold Swiss Army USB Drive , not knife. This diamond studded flash drive, also known as a thumb drive or jump drive, holds 1 gig of memory and sells for just $6,000.

Would you be wiling to pay $25,000 for a dessert ? It's available at Serendipity 3 in New York City and includes chocolate, gold, black truffle shavings, and even a gold spoon.

A Norwegian jeweler has created the world's most expensive iPod , made out of 18 karat which and pink gold with 312 diamonds, and 118 diamonds on the ear plugs. There is only one in existance and it sells for $41,000.

A date with the famous tennis champion, Maria Sharapova, the world's highest paid female athlete, sold for a reasonable price of $10,000 at a charity auction. The successful bidder even outbid Maria's boyfriend.

A man who owns a three acre island on the Halifax River has decided to sell it on eBay with a one dollar minimum bid. Bids have already gone above $350,000, so far. Check out the list of the top ten private islands for sale .

The net worth of famous investor and billionaire, Warren Buffett, increased by 12.9% today as his Berkshire Hathaway Inc. (BRK-A) stock went up by $18,990 to $147,000. Don't forget to check out the previous article about the Trade Like Warren Buffett book review.

A Cezanne painting was sold for $13 million to a Sydney, Australia art gallery, making it the most expensive painting purchased by an Australian art gallery. It was painted by Cezanne in 1888 and was called the " Bords de la Marine ".

One of the last sections of the Berlin Wall, covered in graffiti, sold for $11,290 , by a Berlin auction house.

The first license plate ever issued in Edinburgh, Scotland, originally issued in 1903, went for $727,782 at auction . The license number is 'S1'. The buyer remains anonymous.

If you are looking for that perfect, unique gift for your daughter, you should purchase the one-of-a-kid Barbie doll, with 318 genuine diamonds in the doll's outfit. It was just released in Mexico City and is valued at about $94,800.

If you ever considered owning your own village, now is your chance. A village in north Norfolk, England, including a historic 13-bedroom mansion plus a seven bedroom barn , is available for sale for only 25 million British pounds. The sellers are selling because it is too big to keep up.

The Russian billionaire, Mikhail Prokhorov, has denied that he bought the world's most expensive house, the Villa Leopolda in Villefranche-sur-Mer , on the Côte d'Azur for $730 million.

A farm house is for sale in Madliena, Malta in the Mediterranean Sea. The 250 year old house includes a swimming pool, indoor-outdoor dining area and a conservatory, and of course a view of the Mediterranean. Price is $1,855,000 .

Sotheby's will be holding an invitation only preview event of new artwork of Damien Hirst. On August 28, attendees will be able to view some of the $120.8 million of art at the Bridge Club, Bridgehampton.

According to several news sources, the Villa Leopold, a home in the French Riviera called, which was built by King Leopold II of Belgium in 1902, sold for $750 million . It was reportedly sold to a Russian business tycoon.

Recently, we had an article about Warren Buffett books . However, if you want to follow in Warren Buffett's footsteps, you need to read the leading book about Buffett's trading techniques, Trade Like Warren Buffett by James Altucher. Altucher, who is the founder and president of Stockpickr.com, shows how Buffett is not just a buy-and-hold value investor, as is commonly assumed. Buffett uses numerous trading and investing methods which are discussed in detail. In addition, top traders are interviewed about their techniques and how they are similar to Buffett's. If you want more than just a biography of Buffett, if you want a book that gives you hands-on techniques, get a hold of Trade Like Warren Buffett . Other books by Altucher include Trade Like a Hedge Fund: 20 Successful Uncorrelated Strategies & Techniques to Winning Profits and SuperCash: The New Hedge Fund Capitalism

There are lots of outstanding vacation packages around the world for less than $100,000. Here is a selection of several unique vacation opportunities. Regent Seven Seas Cruises is offering an around-the-world cruise for 116 nights on the Seven Seas Voyager. The cruise stops in French Polynesia, New Zealand, Australia, Indonesia, the Philippines, China, Singapore, Dubai, Egypt, Turkey and several European countries. It departs January 13, 2009 and the price is only $65,000. Abercrombie and Kent has a ten day Kenya Hemingway Safari, limited to 12 people, for $8,580 per person. Luxury Vacations Villas has a 15,000 square feet, five ocean-front kingsize bedrooms, private and luxurious location in Anguilla, BWI. Meals are prepared by Prince Rainier´s former personal chef. There is a staff of 15 and 24 hour security. It also has a private gym and an Olympic size pool. The price during high season is approximately $70,000 for a week plus a 10% service charge and a 10% government tax. Pure Kau

Here are a list of books about and by Warren Buffett: The Intelligent Investor: The Definitive Book on Value Investing. A Book of Practical Counsel (Revised Edition) The Essays of Warren Buffett : Lessons for Corporate America The Warren Buffett Way, Second Edition The Snowball: Warren Buffett and the Business of Life The Winning Investment Habits of Warren Buffett & George Soros The New Buffettology: The Proven Techniques for Investing Successfully in Changing Markets That Have Made Warren Buffett the World's Most Famous Investor Warren Buffett Speaks: Wit and Wisdom from the World's Greatest Investor The Tao of Warren Buffett: Warren Buffett's Words of Wisdom: Quotations and Interpretations to Help Guide You to Billionaire Wealth and Enlightened Business Management

A cow in Connecticutt recently sold for $1,000,000 at auction . It had a starting bid of $200,000. The name of the cow is Apple, and the main reason for its high price was her rare red color.

A one of a kind Ford Mustang AV8R sold for $500,000 in a charity auction at the the world’s largest annual aviation event. The sale was to support the Experimental Aircraft Association youth events. The 400 horsepower Mustang is Build #1 of 1.

The car with the highest dollar amount of losses for insurance companies is the Cadillac Escalade EXT 4 wheel drive .

London : $68.07 a day, or $1,166.87 a month in the financial district.

Christie's auction house in New York auctioned off over $850,000 of items from the estate of James Brown , the famous soul singer. One of the top items was his black satin cape which went for $47,000.

The oldest pawnshop in France just auctioned off a pastel painting by French master Pierre-Auguste Renoir, for $300,000 . The painting "Young Girl Seated in a Garden," is from 1881.

At a charity eBay auction, a Chinese investor paid $2,110,100 for a lunch with the famous American investor, Warren Buffett . This was the most expensive charity item that eBay has ever sold.The proceeds support the Glide Foundation, a California based charity which provides services to the poor and homeless in San Francisco. The winning bidder was Zhao Danyang, head of the Hong Kong-based Pureheart China Growth Investment Fund. The winning bidder is entitled to himself and up to seven friends dining with Buffett at Smith & Wollensky steakhouse restaurant in New York City, New York.

How would you like to pay $185 for a hamburger ? And a Burger King (BKC) hamburger at that! That is what burgers are selling for at a Burger King in South Kensington, England. Burger King trades on the New York Stock Exchange.

If you think the $100 Million for Donald Trump's mansion is high, it doesn't come close to Mukesh Ambani's house which is costing $1 billion to build . The house will be 27 storeys high (the first six floors for just parking and the roof has a helipad). Ambani is the fifth richest man in the world.

Donald Trump's 33,000 sq ft Palm Beach mansion just sold for $100 million (originally listed for $125 million) to Dmitry Rybolovlev, a 42-year-old billionaire who is the head of Uralkali, the Russian mining company. Trump had originally bought the house for $41.25m in a bankruptcy sale in 2004.

Here's something to add to your wardrobe. A life-jacket from the infamous cruise ship, Titanic . This is only one of six known Titanic life vests known to exist and will be sold at auction at Christie's. Expected price will be $60,000 to $80,000.

The mahogany writing desk and chair Charles Dickens was sold by Christies in London for $850,000. Interestingly, the buyer of the desk is a tarot card psychic.

Not only is Brazil a great place to find great stock investments , but it is also the source of high priced stamps. Siegel Auction Galleries just sold a set of 1843 Brazilian stamps called the 'pack strip' for $1.9 million, and that's before the 15% commission.

A rare black Japanese Densuke watermelon was auctioned off in Tokyo for $6,100, one of the highest prices ever paid for a watermelon. The watermelon weight 17 pounts. Last month, two cantaloupe melons sold for a record $23,500 in Japan.

Beluga caviar has increased in price by 60% to $860 for 50 grams , since Russia has banned it from export due to concern about wild sturgeon becoming extinct. Russia is going after illegal poachers to stop illegal trade.

Acker Merrall & Condit, a large American auction house, sold $8.2 million of wine in Hong Kong, with 92% of almost a thousand lots sold. One of the top sellers was a 12-bottle case of 1990 Domaine de la Romanee-Conti, which sold for $242,000.

If you like to buy unusual types of real estate, maybe you should consider buying a jail. Price is only $200,000 .

A man has just put up for auction a 5.5-inch high gold mug that was given to him as a child. At the time, he thought it was another toy. It turned out to be an ancient Persian goblet which was pounded out of a single sheet of gold back around 350 BC. Duke's Auction House said that it expects to sell for around $988,000 .

A Taiwanese businessmen consigned an ancient Chinese pot which sold for $8.3 million. The proceeds will be used for earthquake relief .

130-million-year-old fossilized dinosaur dung , otherwise known as coprolite, was hammered at $960, more than twice the estimate, at the Bonham's auction house in New York. However, a 4.5 billion-year-old meteorite which was expected to fetch around $2.5 million didn't meet its minimum reserve.

Kurt Beck, the head of Germany's Social Democrats, is considered shaving off his beard in return for $1.5 million for charity.

The Brazilian supermodel, Gisele Bundchen , is the top earning supermodel for last year, according to Forbes, followed by Heidi Klum, Kate Moss, Adriana Lima and Doutzen Kroes. Gisele reportedly earned $35 million in 2007 primarily from product endorsements.

Interesting in meeting with Alan Greenspan and Andrea Mitchell at The Four Seasons in Washington, D.C.? Then for $16,000 (current bid), you can have tea with them. This event is being auctioned off by the CharityBuzz.com online charity auction to benefit the Robert F. Kennedy Memorial, the DC based international human rights advocacy group.

A great gift for the amateur gardener! The Ivory Coast has a tree for sale, a rare coconut tree with three heads . Most palm trees have only one head. This rare botanical oddity can be had for a for measly million dollars.

A nine strand necklace belonging to Umm Kulthoum, one of the top Arabian singers, sold at a Christie's auction for over $1.3 million . The necklace has 1,888 pearls and was expected to sell for only $120,000.

If you want the ultimate in luxury for your computer setup, you should have an Art Lebedev's Optimus Maximus keyboard , which costs a reasonable $1600. The reason for this price is that it has 133 tiny OLED display keys. In other words, each key is a tiny screen, that can be programmed to show whatever you want on each individual key, including images and movies. It is currently sold out at ThinkGeek.com .

Looking for a wrist watch that can give you the opening hours of the world's major stock markets, including London, Paris, Tokyo, and New York? Buy yourself a Girard-Perregaux ww.tc watch for only $15,000.

A 1955, 1956 and 1957 Corvette will be sold at a MECUM's Bloomington Gold High Performance Auction on June 27 and 28 in St. Charles, Illinois. The car from 1955 was the first Corvette with a high-performance V-8 engine.

SCP Auctions auctioned off the last home run baseball of Barry Bonds , No. 762. After 13 spirited bids, the ball was hammered for $376,612. Since there hasn't been any interest yet in Bonds since he is a free agent, the ball could be quite valuable if Bonds doesn't play any more.

Now I've seen everything. A toilet built for two , called a TwoDaLoo, is now on the market. This is supposed to be an environmentally conscious simultaneous-flush two-seater toilet, which can use a a single 2.6-gallon-saving flush for both. This interesting invention has add-ons that include an LCD television and iPod docking station, and is available for only $1400.

The highlight of a Singapore fashion show was the diamond studded thong (and the model who was wearing it), valued at $122,000 (the thong, not the model). There are 30 carats of 518 brilliant cut diamonds and 27 white gold tassels in The Triumph Luxurious Diamond Thong. The Romanian model that was showing it off at the show was wearing only this skimpy thong. Would this make a great gift for your wife or girlfriend?

'The Penny' will be auctioned by Christie's auction house and is expected to bring $1,000,000. The Penny is not a penny, it is a rare 300 year old Stradivarius violin, formerly owned by the pianist and violinist Barbara Penny.

If you are interested in books by and about billionaires, here are ten worth checking out: The Billionaire Who Wasn't: How Chuck Feeney Made and Gave Away a Fortune Without Anyone Knowing Losing My Virginity: How I've Survived, Had Fun, and Made a Fortune Doing Business My Way The Tao of Warren Buffett: Warren Buffett's Words of Wisdom: Quotations and Interpretations to Help Guide You to Billionaire Wealth and Enlightened Business Management The Eccentric Billionaire: John D. MacArthur--Empire Builder, Reluctant Philanthropist, Relentless Adversary Damn Right: Behind the Scenes with Berkshire Hathaway Billionaire Charlie Munger Trump Strategies for Real Estate: Billionaire Lessons for the Small Investor Think Like a Billionaire, Become a Billionaire How to Pick Stocks Like Warren Buffett: Profiting from the Bargain Hunting Strategies of the World's Greatest Value Investor Billionaire In Training (Instant Success) The Argument: Billionaires, Bloggers, and the Battle to R

If you are a coin collector, you may be interested in the book, 100 Greatest U.S. Coins , by Jeff Garrett and Ron Guth. If you are interested in the actual coins, John B. Hamrick & Co. just announced the sale of the Old Roswell Mill Collection , which contains thirty-three coins featured in the book.

The auction house, Christie's, will have an interesting item up for sale, a nude portrait photo of French President Nicolas Sarkozy's wife , Carla Bruni, taken when she was a popular fashion model. This is expected to be a hot item and to be hammered at between $3,000 and $4,000.

A 10,000 year old 10 foot tall Mastodon skeleton is for sale in California for $115,000. The owners want to get rid of it because it fills up their garage. The skeleton is almost complete and was found on a family ranch over ten years ago.

The two most expensive homes on eBay this month are: A 16,000 square foot palace in Ft. Lauderdale for $14,500,000.00 with a full acre of waterfront property and includes a guest house. The house was built in 2001. There are already two bids on this mansion. A Lake Las Vegas, Nevada Mediterranean mansion which is also for sale at $14,500,000.00 which has 19,968 square feet. It also includes a custom bridge with waterfalls, pub room, and library.

On April 16, Christie's in Paris will be auctioning off a three-horned vegetarian Triceratops horridus dinosaur skeleton , which is estimated to be over 65 million years old. The auction house believes it will sell for at least $760,000.

The Roland Music company has come out with the FR-2: V-Accordion which utilizes Physical Behavior Modelling. The price is $3,000.

Do you own an iPhone? Check out these iPhone Tips and Tricks , which include how to type letters with accents, deleting email without opening it, and quick ways to type periods.

On March 15 and 16, the Palms Casino will be holding an auction of some very unusual items, amounting to what are expected to sell for in excess of $5,000,000. Some of the items to be auctioned off include the hat of the Wizard of Oz's Wicked Witch of the West and the gun that killed Jack Ruby .

The "Golden Age" is an Apple Macbook Air created by Bling My Thing's, which is coated in 24k gold that is embedded with 12,000 Swarovski crystals. An extremely rare item, only twenty of these items exist.

It's actually more than a boat, it's a 269 foot yacht , the Ocean Breeze, which really does have a rocket launcher, submarine, and a swimming pool. It is docked in the French Riviera.

In case you missed my previous article about the License Plate 1 auction , here is the follow-up. Abu Dabi sold the license plate for $14 million at a charity auction Saturday. The winning bidder was Saeed Khouri, a member of a wealthy family in Abu Dhabi.

The auction house Bonhams, auctioned off $700,000 worth of dog related items including a silver and leather dog collar, which went for $3900, and a painting of foxhounds and a terrier which was hammered for $66,000.

At the Heritage Auction Galleries auction in Long Beach last week, a collection of 301 cents sold for $10.7 million. Just two of the cents, one from 1793, and one from 1794, sold for $632,500 .

When David Garrettwas exiting a performance at London's Barbican Hall on a flight of concrete steps, he accidentally tripped and dropped his $1 million 1772 Guadagnini violin . It is still unknown whether the violin can be repaired.

Did you know that people started consuming chocolate back in 1100 BC? Did you know that chocolate can lower your blood pressure? The blog called Stockerblog.com has a list of ten bits of trivia about one of the world's most favorite sweets, chocolate .

$164 million in old masters paintings were stolen at gunpoint at a museum in Zurich, Switzerland. The stolen paintings included those by Cezanne, Degas, Monet, and van Gogh. This was the largest art robbery in Swiss history.

Wouldn't it be neat to have a license plate on your car with the license number '1' on it? Talk about personalized license plates, this would be the ultimate. Well now you have your chance, since next weekend, Abu Dabi will be auctioning off this number 1 license plate automobile registration . Bidding interest is expected to be strong. Gee, if the state of California had come up with this idea of auctioning single digit license plates, it would have helped the state's budget situation.

At a Long Island auction, an 1869 stamp with the Declaration of Independence printed upside down sold for $1.2 million . The stamp was auctioned off by Philip Weiss Auctions.

If you want a great movie star collectible, how about bidding on Keira Knightley's dress that she wore in the movie Atonement . The dress is being auctions by ClothesOffOurBacks.org , with the proceeds going to Variety – The Children’s Charity of Southern California.

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A very large mastodon skull, reportedly the largest four-tusk mastodon skull in existence, is being auctioned off by a Texas fossil museum in order to raise funds. They expect it to hammer for more than $120,000.

1959 Ferrari 250 GT long-wheelbase California Spider with a V-12 engine sold $3.3 million at a Gooding & Company auction in Arizona. Over 12 cars sold for more than a million dollars, including a 1932 Alfa Romeo, a 1932 Packard, and a 1936 Model J Duesenberg. This was the auctioneer's first Arizona sale with 90% of the lots selling for more than estimates.

An Israeli billionaire, Lev Leviev, in the diamond business just bought the most expensive new home in Great Britain for $70 million. The house has bullet proof door, and the cost of the door alone was $100,000.

2008 Naples Winter Wine Festival , which would be held on Jan. 26, and will auction off wines that can't be found anywhere. Some of the wines include a case of 1985 Domaine de la Romanee-Conti La Tache in its original unopened wood box, a case of 1961 Chateau Haut-Brion, and a 15-bottle vertical of Harlan Estate wine from 1990 to 2004.

eBay is auctioning off the last Sky Commuter Prototype test craft , which is the only registered aircraft with the FAA as a VTOL. It was designed to both fly and drive on highways. At the time this was written, the current bid price was $55,600. Check out this sale, there are 24 pictures.

A man was eating steamed clams at a restaurant in Lake Worth, Florida when he bit into a rare round purple pearl, with a value of several thousand dollars. It is expected that the restaurant, Dave's Last Resort & Raw Bar , may be getting a lot more business.