Wednesday, June 23rd, 2010
Gary Coleman 's beloved train collection is being sold off -- even though a court has frozen the Diff'rent Strokes star's affairs. A Utah man has revealed he spent $11,000 on some of the late actor's collection in the days after his death, on May 28. And Coleman's agent, Robert Malcolm , has accused Coleman's ex-wife Shannon Price of being behind the sale. PHOTOS: Celebs We Lost In 2010
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Wednesday, June 23rd, 2010
Just three months before his untimely death, Gary Coleman secretly filed for a restraining order against ex-wife Shannon Price.
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Gary Coleman filed restraining order against ex-wife Shannon Price months prior to death
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Friday, June 18th, 2010
Among Gary Coleman s most prized possessions were his model trains. EXCLUSIVE: Gary Coleman International Memorial Being Planned
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Wednesday, June 16th, 2010
Herman Helle A scene from Kamp Recreatingif that is the right wordthe daily routine of mass murder at Auschwitz with miniature puppets made of plasticine may not seem a promising enterprise. However artfully done, it could make what actually happened look trivial, like a kind of game. And yet Kamp , staged at St. Anns Warehouse in Brooklyn in the first week of June, by a Dutch group called ...
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Holocaust on Stage
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Sunday, May 16th, 2010
More women are buying their own guns than before, according to a 2009 survey by the National Shooting Sports Foundation, which found that gun shop owners reported a 70% increase in female buyers last year.
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Female gun fanatics on the rise: More women, like 'three gun' champ Tasha Hanish, buying guns
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Saturday, March 6th, 2010
The world of miniature railroading is on display for train enthusiasts. Fans will see train layouts and how to hobby demonstrations.
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The Great Train Expo Moves Into Tulsa (News On 6 Tulsa)
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Friday, December 4th, 2009
On Saturday trains will be in motion as the Livingston Manor Chamber of Commerce kicks off Holiday Trains on Main, a nostalgic trip back in time with handmade model trains on view in many Main Street windows! The public is warmly invited to the...
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Come to Livingston Manor Saturday for the annual holiday train festival (Middletown Times Herald-Record)
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Wednesday, December 2nd, 2009
Hugh Keen of Tulsa is a retired mechanical engineer. Now he's the engineer on his own model railroad layout. He has been building it for about 30 years and still going.
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Tuesday, October 20th, 2009
Lionel, the iconic model train maker, is opening a shop for the first time in its century-long existence. The popup store will have a home across from Radio City Music Hall in equally iconic Rockefeller Center.
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Model train company Lionel to open store in Rockefeller Center for the holiday season (New York Daily News)
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Thursday, September 3rd, 2009
NEW YORK (AP) -- The Long Island Rail Road is celebrating its 175th anniversary in a, well, small way, with a Lionel scale replica of a LIRR train.
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Lionel makes scale model of LIRR train (Middletown Times Herald-Record)
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