Financier Bobby Haas to open motorcycle museum in Dallas

The 1932 Brough Superior BS4 is one of only a handful still in existence. H&H Motor Auction image
Visitors to the new museum in Dallas will see rare motorcycles made by Brough. This 1932 Brough Superior BS4 (not part of the museum’s collection) is one of only a handful still in existence and was sold by H&H Motor Auction. Image courtesy of H&H Motor Auction

DALLAS (AP) – Dallas financier Bobby Haas has a leather jacket that features a snarling wild animal with the words “Lone Wolf” written above it — biker lingo for a rider who isn’t affiliated with a gang or club.

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Michigan museum acquires reconstruction of extinct hominid

Life-size sculptural reconstruction of Australopithecus sediba, an extinct human relative that roamed southern Africa 2 million years ago. © Sculpture Elisabeth Daynès /Photo: S. Entressangle

ANN ARBOR, Mich. (AP) – The University of Michigan now owns what’s believed to be the only lifelike reconstruction of a human relative that roamed southern Africa 2 million years ago.

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Far out: 1960s rock concert posters

This concert poster for The Doors at Eagles Auditorium in Seattle, November 1967, sold for $7,000 at MBA Seattle Auction in April 2016. Copyright John Moehring – ‘67 #10. Photo courtesy of MBA Seattle Auction and LiveAuctioneers

NEW YORK – The 1960s were a heady time in rock ’n’ roll and the music scene. Long before the Internet, the best advertising for concerts was the poster. And while posters were produced on both coasts of the United States, a hotbed of the poster-making — and music  — was San Francisco.

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Restored WWII bomber Memphis Belle is moved into Ohio museum

The Memphis Belle B-17 Flying Fortress stands disassembled in its hangar across from Naval Support Activity Mid-South during a 2003 restoration. U.S. Navy photo by Susan Hyback, courtesy Wikimedia Commons.
The Memphis Belle B-17 Flying Fortress, disassembled in its hangar across from Naval Support Activity Mid-South during a 2003 restoration. U.S. Navy photo by Susan Hyback, courtesy Wikimedia Commons.

DAYTON, Ohio (AP) – The fabled World War II bomber Memphis Belle has been moved into its new home at an Ohio museum after years of restoration work, but won’t go on public display until May.

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1940s-era phone booths installed in Iowa train station

Period phone booths have been restored and installed inside the 1944 midcentury modern train station in Burlington, Iowa. Image by Adam Moss, licensed uner the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 2.0 Generic license

BURLINGTON, Iowa (AP) – The two 1940s-era telephones at the Burlington Depot have been restored, bringing the city’s former transportation hub one step closer to its former glory.

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War of 1812 map on front line of March 20 auction

Walker/Baines folding map of the War of 1812, printed in 1816, hand-colored, approximately 10.75 in. x 16.5 in. Estimate: $500-$600. Jasper52 image

NEW YORK – A scarce view of the United States showing important places during the War of 1812 is one of many fascinating antique maps offered in a Jasper52 online auction on Tuesday, March 20. Absentee and Internet bidding is available through LiveAuctioneers.

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Family that found 7 baseball cards worth millions finds 8th

The eighth tobacco card depicting baseball legend Ty Cobb discovered in the home of a lucky family’s great-grandfather. Image courtesy of PSA

LOS ANGELES (AP) – What could be better than becoming a millionaire after finding seven vintage baseball cards while cleaning out your late great-grandfather’s house?

How about finding an eighth?

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Crescent City sale March 24-25 to feature American art

Oil painting titled ‘Native American Bow Hunting’ by H. Irving Marlatt, signed and dated ‘1915’ lower right. Estimate: $1,500-$2,500. Crescent City Auction Gallery image

NEW ORLEANS – A portrait painting of George Washington done in the manner of Edward Savage, an oil painting titled Native American Bow Hunting by H. Irving Marlatt and an American Rococo carved mahogany half tester bed, circa 1850-1860, stamped “C. Lee” are star lots in Crescent City Auction Gallery’s March 24 and 25 sale. Absentee and Internet live bidding is available through LiveAuctioneers.

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