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A teacher's treasure

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Imagination begets reality. A grandmother, once a teacher, finds truth in the saying when her imaginary box, concocted to lure pranksters among her pupils to deposit their toys for safekeeping, finally materializes as a finely crafted box, a product of her son's expert hands.

Author: MacDonald, Charity E.
Publisher: Reader's Digest Magazines Ltd.
Publication Name: Reader's Digest (Canadian)
Subject: General interest
ISSN: 0034-0413
Year: 1992
Personal narratives, Teaching, Grandmothers

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Berlin's forgotten treasure

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The Pergamon Museum's Hellenistic collection was discovered in 1868 by Carl Humann. Transported to and reassembled in Berlin in the same year, the collection will be the centerpiece of the merged art collections of East and West Germany, to be housed on Museum Island.

Author: Meisler, Stanley
Publisher: Reader's Digest Magazines Ltd.
Publication Name: Reader's Digest (Canadian)
Subject: General interest
ISSN: 0034-0413
Year: 1992
Germany, Exhibitions, Discovery and exploration, Museums, Art museums, Art, Hellenistic, Hellenistic art, Humann, Carl

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Duke of hazards: only true entrepreneurs could find the hidden treasure

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Jim Reid specializes in the sales of used golf balls. The entrepreneur used to dive for the balls at the bottom of water hazards in golf courses. He now buys them from others who do the diving.

Publisher: Reader's Digest Magazines Ltd.
Publication Name: Reader's Digest (Canadian)
Subject: General interest
ISSN: 0034-0413
Year: 1995
Innovations, Marketing, Golf balls, Businessmen

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