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April 9, 2007
A gray Volkswagen Golf once owned by Pope Benedict XVI is up for sale on e-Bay, with the current highest bid at $202,750. Proceeds from the auction will go to Habitat for Humanity Great Britain. The Pope's private secretary bought the car from a dealer in Siegen in 1999 and sold it back to the dealer in 2004. In 2005 a young German student bought the car unaware of its previous owner, but later found out and sold it on eBay to the online casino Golden Palace for $245,000.
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March 9, 2007
Norway's Royal Palace was put up for sale on auction site eBay late on Wednesday night, with a starting bid of one dollar. The last bid for the Oslo palace, seen at 1 am on Thursday morning, stood at $99,999,999 with an auction deadline of March 14.
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March 7, 2007
An apparent quality control mistake has raised the value of the first presidential $1 coin to around $50 apiece. An unknown number of the gold colored coins with an image of the first U. S. President George Washington on it were mistakenly struck without their edge inscriptions, including "In God We Trust," and are now being auctioned at eBay for around $40 to $60. The news comes just less than a month after the U. S. Mint issued nearly 300 million of the coins. The coins were supposed to feature the image of the President on one side and the Statute of Liberty on the other. "In God We Trust," "E Pluribus Unum," the issue year and the mintmark on the edge.
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December 31, 2006
A Colorado woman is selling something the state has plenty of these days - snow. Mary Walker is selling a load of it on eBay. So far, bids are hovering around 99 cents. Colorado residents have been hit with two big snowstorms in the last two weeks.
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December 13, 2006
"Would you like fries with that?" is not a question usually associated with fashion, but it was on Wednesday in New York when singer Kelis modeled a dress for fast food chain McDonalds made out of their Arch Card. The Grammy nominated singer, whose breakthrough single was an appropriately titled hit "Milkshake", was appearing at the "Load It, Gift It, Love It" fashion experience hosted by the restaurant.
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