As a museum director, you know it’s time for a bigger building when you’re storing artifacts in an old bathroom. On a recent tour of the Lane County Historical Museum at the county fairgrounds, Executive Director Bob Hart displayed Exhibit A: a dark, dank bathroom now used to store an …

Royal wedding gets Oz stamp of approvalSky News AustraliaAustralia Post is commemorating the royal wedding with two stamps featuring Prince William and Catherine Middleton. The stamps will feature an image of the couple taken after their engagement was announced. Both stamps will be released on Tuesday – one …and more » …

What Courtney Love wore – and flogged on eBayThe VineEveryone's favourite designer darling/hot damn mess – save it, LiLo – has launched an eBay store! Where you can actually buy clothes she actually wore. Whether the enterprise will result in any revenue for the singer, who might be a little …

Iowa City Postcard, Stamp& Paper show draws large crowdEastern Iowa LifeIOWA CITY — Small and square the fist mailing stamp to ever circulate in the United States sits, glistening under protective plastic wrap. On its surface, the tiny stamp has a small drawing of Benjamin Franklin, the nation's first post …

Soccer star David Beckham will be there with his pop star wife Victoria. Elton John is attending with partner David Furnish. And the Venerable Bogoda Seelawimala will be there too, probably one of the few guests at the wedding of the year wearing orange and burgundy Buddhist robes. More: continued …

eBay Find of the Day: 4400-mile, unrestored 1969 Ford Mustang Boss 429Autoblog (blog)The seller of this 1969 Ford Mustang Boss 429 bought it from its original Akron, Ohio owner who racked up a scant 4405 miles before offloading it back in the day. It's been garage-kept all its … More: …

Parents bail out gap year childrenThe Press AssociationA total of 29% turn to their parents for financial help while away, the poll by Post Office Travel Insurance found. As many as 20% run out of money in the first three months, with the amount that parents give their children averaging …

CTV.ca Hosni Mubarak Gives His First Post–Office Speech Amid Stunning Turn Of Events …The Business InsiderThere's a lot going on, but don't take your eye off the ball in Egypt, where the post-revolution situation continues to deteriorate. This weekend there were big protests in Tahrir Square that saw multiple deaths. …

KUALA LUMPUR: Pos Malaysia is immortalising 10 precious historical artefacts in its latest stamp collection entitled “Artefacts of National Heritage”. More: continued here

Lane County museum eyes post office buildingThe Register-GuardThe museum's historical society continues to eye the historic US Post Office building for sale in downtown Eugene, and Hart recently got the blessing of the Lane County Board of Commissioners to go after the building. More: continued here