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This Brooklyn house has a massive, $10 million African art collection...
Eric Edwards, a Brooklyn-based former AT&T executive, has launched a Kickstarter campaign in order to create a museum to house his 2,500-piece collection of African art and artifacts, worth...
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The super-rich like to keep their money at home
Ultra-wealthy people can be found all over the world. But where do they like to invest their riches?According to the annual Capgemini and RBC Wealth Management World Wealth Report, the world's...
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How different cultures understand time
Time is seen in a particularly different light by Eastern and Western cultures, and even within these groupings assumes quite dissimilar aspects from country to country.In the Western Hemisphere, the...
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The 10 most expensive champagnes on the planet
Champagne has long been synonymous with quality and opulence having built up a reputation for luxury appeal.English and other sparkling wines may be challenging the Champagne market, but Champagne...
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Millionaires are turning to 'robo advisors' — but only in some parts of the...
Robo-advisors are starting to become more popular around the globe and across wealth levels. (Remember the Charles Schwab robo-advisor ad?)But it turns out that, at least among millionaires,...
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A Wall Street exec is selling his gorgeous modernist home in Connecticut for...
President of Freepoint Commodities, Frank Gallipoli, is putting a coveted modernist house up for sale at $14 million with Sotheby's International Realty.The commodities trading executive originally...
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Indians drink way, way more whiskey than Americans
The country that consumes the most whiskey in the world is India.Indians consumed 1.5 billion litres of whiskey in 2014, completely dwarfing the United States' 462 million litres, according to a...
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Scotland is not the biggest Scotch-drinking country
The largest Scotch market in the world is not Scotland, or even the United Kingdom, but France.According to a Bank of America Merrill Lynch research note, France consumed 125 million litres of Scotch...
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The most powerful whiskey brands in the world
Sure, craft whiskeys are growing in popularity.But one whiskey brand dominates the market: Johnnie Walker.Johnnie Walker's retail value was $5.3 billion in 2014, according to a research note from Bank...
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I had a rare chance to tour the Metropolitan Museum of Art without anyone...
The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City is one of the biggest and most beautiful places to see art in America. It's also insanely popular; tens of thousands of people visit it each day and over...
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12 things everyone gets wrong about Germany
My Austrian family might disagree, but I consider myself from Germany: I grew up in Munich, lived there for most of my life, and consider it home. As an expat who's been in the US for almost a decade,...
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Here are the legal precedents for swearing at cops
This story was written by Ken Armstrong for The Marshall Project, a nonprofit news organization that covers the U.S. criminal justice system. Sign up for their newsletter, or follow The Marshall...
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These are the 3 bags every man should own
From carryalls to man-purses, it's not easy to figure out what kind of bag today's guys actually need.The temptation is to fall back on the familiar and opt for a backpack. Unfortunately, while that...
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The best ways to stop sunburn
BI Editor's Note: This article was originally published May 22, 2015, but the advice below will help you avoid sunburn all summer.Summer may not officially begin for a few weeks, but Memorial Day is...
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A Hong Kong artist created these illustrations to show differences from...
A set of infographics claiming to show differences between Hong Kong and China has been attracting attention online – much of it negative.The striking images, which were created by a Hong Kong artist...
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Pope denounces 'throwaway' culture of consumer society
SANTA CRUZ, Bolivia (AP) — Pope Francis denounced the "throwaway" culture of today's society that discards anyone who is unproductive as he celebrated his first public Mass in Bolivia on Thursday, one...
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GOLDMAN SACHS ELEVATOR: Wall Street isn't like 'Wolf of Wall Street' — but...
Wall Street isn't like 'Wolf of Wall Street', says John LeFevre, the man behind the parody Twitter feed, Goldman Sachs Elevator.But it's not because the culture is more staid in reality — the...
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Lynn Tilton says she regrets her infamous Christmas card
Lynn Tilton says she regrets the racy Christmas card she sent to colleagues in the late 1990s when she worked for a firm called Amroc Investments. Tilton discussed it as part of a Bloomberg...
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11 Japanese customs that are shocking to foreigners
Japan is known for its complex rules for social behavior.There are specific rules to follow at the dinner table, good practices for giving and receiving gifts, and even different slippers to wear in...
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5 cultural faux pas Americans make while traveling abroad
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