AnirudhaMore From The Book
In the book, the individuals who survived the war told that back then many people had good relations with the white settlers and during the war, many helped each other in hiding and fleeing out of the place. The war could have been stopped if the leader of the tribe would have been a little patient in his act.
More From The Mouths
The book tells about the certain events that took place and what could have been the course of history if they wouldn’t have. The killings of five white settlers by the four Dakota people was the spark that ignited the fire that resulted in the destruction of lives from both the sides.
The story of this anonymous buyer giving the precious and sacred back to the people to which it belongs brings back the faith in humanity.
There have been several incidents with people who bought some amazing things in an auction for a cheap price and later found out their true value. Here are few of those incidents.
Hand-Made Plates
This woman from Rhode island bought a ceramic plate in 1970, from a flea market for $100, hanged the plate on a wall above the stove. The plate was covered with from all the grease from the stove heat and it was in 2014 when she found out plate’s true origin on a TV program “Antiques Roadshow” and she found out that this plate was designed by none other than Piccaso in 1995 and was worth $10,000.
Flea Market
This financial analyst found this old painting at a flea market and bought it for $4 and when he was going through the painting he found 500 official copies of the Declaration of Independence behind the painting. The Sotheby auction house sold the copies for $2.42 million. “It was far and away the highest price for historical Americana ever,” David Redden, the auctioneer and former senior vice president at Sotheby’s in Manhattan, said during an interview.
Classic Cars In A Barn
It’s not every day that people find $18 million treasure inside a barn. But these two motorcar enthusiasts discovered classic cars in a 100-year-old barn in France. These cars once belonged to Roger Baillon who eventually forgot about the cars and the barn he bought to keep the cars safe. “This sort of thing doesn’t happen often enough,” Matthieu Lamoure, managing director of Artcurial Motorcars, stated in an interview.
Space Artifacts
Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin, the first two people who stepped their feet on the moon back in 1969, changed the way we see the universe today. Just like their history, this Chicago woman Nancy Carlson bought a bag of samples that these two astronauts gathered during their space trip which was auctioned off by NASA (accidentally). She bought the sample for $995 in 2016. The NASA people tried their best to convince the lady to give them back the bag of the sample but she sold the bag for $1.8 million.