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PARIS and LONDON -- Several people disguised as construction workers broke into the world-famous Louvre Museum in Paris on Sunday, cracking open display cases and stealing jewelry that once belonged to Emperor Napoleon and his wife, officials said.
At least nine pieces of jewelry of "inestimable heritage and historical value" -- including crowns, necklaces, earrings and brooches -- were taken in the brazen heist before the thieves made their getaway on motorcycles, two ministers said.
"Investigations have begun, and a precise list of the stolen items is underway," the museum said in a statement...
Here is the link for the rest of the article.
Louvre Museum heist: Jewels with 'inestimable' value stolen from Napoleon collection - ABC News
Evidently, one of the crowns was dropped and found left behind. It is speculated that some of the items might be broken up and sold. That would be a shame, but events like that sometimes lead to hidden treasures.
Here is another link to that story.
The Louvre Jewel Heist Sounds Like a Bad Movie Plot Made Real
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Treasure hunter's persistence pays off with rare Spanish coin discovery on Nantucket beach.A mysterious 18th-century coin recently resurfaced on a beach in Nantucket, thanks to one determined metal detectorist.
Hobbyist Travis Nichols found the coin — a 1782 silver Spanish one-reale — at a beach on the south shore of the island, according to an Oct. 9 report by the Nantucket inquirer and Mirror.
Nichols is known in the local community, the publication said, for helping others find jewelry and other metal objects they've lost on Nantucket's beaches...
"This coin came from Mexico City, somehow sailed to New England and then probably took another ship to Nantucket," Nichols said. He mused, "What was it doing on the south shore?"
The spot where the coin was found appears to be promising. Nichols previously found a historic penny there — notably, it was clipped to half its value...
Treasure hunter's persistence pays off with rare Spanish coin discovery on Nantucket beach
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The United States Mint has unveiled four designs for the 2026 American Innovation $1 Coin Program. You'll spot Apple co-founder Steve Jobs pictured on one of those commemorative coins. In the design, a young Jobs wears a turtleneck and sits cross-legged in front of a Northern California landscape of rolling hills and oak trees...Here is that link.
Steve Jobs and the Cray-1 Supercomputer Will Be on US Dollar Coins - CNET
The Jobs coin will also show the Cray super-computer, created by Seymore Cray, who at the time worked for Control Data Corp., a company I once worked with at the same time back in the 1970s.
Here is more about Seymore Cray.
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A major outage has affected 'half the internet', with millions of people left unable to access sites including Snapchart Fortnight and Duolingo, as well as several banking apps.
At 11:35 BST (6:35am ET), Amazon said the underlying issue has been 'fully mitigated', adding that 'most operations are succeeding normally now'.
However, the outage continues to wreak havoc around the globe, with millions of customers still experiencing issues accessing their favorite sites...
Here is the link for more about that.
Maybe you felt this.
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| Source: SurfGuru.com. |
So we'll have a couple days of small surf before the surf begins to increase again.
You might want to check out some low tide areas.
Good hunting,
TreasureGuide@comcast.net