Henrique Alvim Corrêa’s fantastically beautiful pen & ink drawings for a 1906 special edition of H.G. Wells’ The War of the Worlds were a hit at Heritage Auctions’ recent illustration art auction . Read the rest
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Alien drawing from 1906 edition of War of the Worlds sells for $32k
Singapore’s insatiable appetite for sand to use to expand its island’s territory has led to a worldwide boom in illegal sand-mining, run by criminal gangs who are responsible for the destruction of entire islands in the Pacific rim. Read the rest
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Sandwars: the mafias whose illegal sand mines make whole islands vanish