(FOX NEWS) – An intimate testament to love and to home written and signed by Founding Father John Adams was sold for $40,000 by auction house Raab Collection on Wednesday.
The romantic side of president Adams was revealed in newly discovered wedding album held privately by family for nearly 200 years.
A "friendship album" compiled by 19-year-old bride-to-be Ellen Maria Brackett of Quincy, Massachusetts.
Paintings of former President John Adams, right, and his wife Abigail Adams, are displayed at the Massachusetts Historical Society in Boston, Massachusetts.
Anthrax-laced letters were sent to Capitol Hill on this day in 2001.
On Oct. 7, 1985, the Italian cruise ship MS Achille Lauro was hijacked by four members of the Palestine Liberation Front off the coast of Egypt in the Mediterranean. The hijackers took the more than 400 passengers and crew members hostage and demanded the release of 50 Palestinians from Israeli prisons.
On this day in 1985, the hijackers surrendered on the condition that they and the hijacking mastermind Abu Abbas be given a plane to escape. However, on Oct. 10, the plane was intercepted by United States military aircraft and forced to land at a NATO base in Sicily, where Mr. Abbas and the hijackers were arrested.
The four Palestinian terrorists who hijacked the cruise ship.
Released hostages of the Achille Lauro liner hijacking are shown being taken ashore.
Palestinian militant Abu Abbas, mastermind of the 1985 Achille Lauro cruise ship hijacking was captured in Iraq April 2003. He died in US custody from a heart attack in 2004.
John Winston Ono Lennon (October 9, 1940 – December 8, 1980)
John Lennon became one of the most influential songwriters in the history of popular music after co-founding The Beatles with Paul McCartney and George Harrison. In 2008, Rolling Stone ranked John Lennon the fifth- greatest singer of all time. In 1987, he was posthumously inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame and twice posthumously inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame: first in 1988 as a member of the Beatles and again in 1994 as a solo artist.
One of the last photos of John Lennon before he was killed.
(Fox News) – Extremely rare letters from infamous World War I spy Mata Hari to her lover have been sold for $15,000 at a Los Angeles auction.
Born Margaretha Zelle in the Netherlands in 1876, the courtesan and exotic dancer was better known by her stage name of Mata Hari. She was recruited by France to spy on Germany during World War I, and was later accused of being a German double agent.
Arrested in Paris on Feb. 13, 1917, she was put on trial on July 24 of that year, charged with spying for Germany and causing the deaths of at least 50,000 soldiers. Convicted, she was executed by a French firing squad on Oct. 15, 1917. Some historians, however, think that she was a scapegoat and her execution was used as a distraction from the devastating losses France suffered during the war.
Dozens of the letters penned by one of the nation’s founding fathers will go on the block Jan. 18, with an estimated worth starting at $1.4 million and topping $2 million. But Sotheby’s expects the feverish interest in the megahit, the only known letter from Hamilton’s son Philip to the man addressed as "Papa” will likely drive prices up.
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