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The lost ancient pigment that was more valuable than gold

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By Zaria GorvettFeatures correspondent@ZariaGorvett AlamyA mosaic of the Byzantine empress Theodora from 547AD (Credit: Alamy)For millennia, Tyrian purple was the most valuable colour on the planet. Then the recipe to make it was lost. By piecing together ancient clues, could one man bring it back? At first, they just looked like stains. It was 2002 at the site of Qatna – a ruined palace at the edge of the Syrian desert, on the shores of a long-vanished lake. Read More...

Tony Hsieh Net Worth 2024

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He has also invested in a variety of other companies, including Askville, Digg, and Twitter. His annual salary is estimated to be around $840,000. Tony Hsieh is a Business Executive with a net worth of $1.2 billion. He was born in 1973 and rose to fame as the CEO of Zappos.com. He sold LinkExchange to Microsoft for $265 million in 1999 and has since invested in a variety of other companies. Read More...

"Hasta la victoria siempre": se equivoc Fidel Castro al pronunciar la frase ms famosa del Che?

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Lioman Lima - @liomanlima BBC News Mundo8 octubre 2019 Es una de las frases más conocidas de la izquierda mundial. Y, quizás, la más popular de Ernesto "Che" Guevara. Por más de medio siglo, ha aparecido en canciones, murales, discursos, poemas, pancartas, edificios, obras de arte, camisetas y hasta tatuajes. Su origen es ampliamente conocido: el 3 de octubre de 1965, Fidel Castro leyó en público la carta privada que le envió Guevara poco antes de partir de La Habana. Read More...