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LONDON, Nov. 22 (UPI) -- Christie's auction house in London said a first edition copy of Charles Darwin's "The Origin of Species" that once resided in a bathroom could sell for $99,000.
The Oxford Mail said Sunday the book written by the late scientist once sat in a bookshelf stored for years in a guest bathroom at a home in the area of Oxford, England.
The family that owns the first edition copy of "Species" purchased the valuable literary work for a fraction of its actual worth at a British shop nearly 40 years ago.
The book on evolution will go up for auction in London Tuesday, the Oxford Mail said.
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NEW YORK, Feb. 9 (UPI) --
Macaulay Culkin is in "perfectly good health," his publicist said after the former child star was photographed looking gaunt and disheveled in New York.
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WASHINGTON, Feb. 9 (UPI) --
The late Steve Jobs, co-founder of the U.S. computer giant Apple, had faults in his personal life but was a business visionary, associates told the FBI.
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ASHLAND, Mass., Feb. 9 (UPI) --
An Ashland, Mass., driver was arrested and charged for throwing a handful of pennies at another car, police said.
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TEL AVIV, Israel, Feb. 9 (UPI) --
The Israeli government plans to build a floating liquefied natural gas terminal with a sea-based defense radar system off its Mediterranean coast while forming a naval force to protect its rich offshore gas fields against terrorist attack.
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