v1 · embedding eigenbasis · axis 59
sale · store · sold · art · auction · buy
sale, store, sold, art, auction, buy, sell, exhibit, buyer, busi, bronx, counti, advertis, birth, price, museum, retail, son, plant, purchas, show, collect, compani, estat
dominant in 12599499 stories · variance scale 0.0022
Energy by year
1851 → 2026
Human sections of its stories
| Section (Wikipedia Current Events) | stories |
|---|
| Law and crime | 147 |
| Business and economy | 136 |
| Politics and elections | 105 |
| Arts and culture | 91 |
| Armed conflicts and attacks | 60 |
| International relations | 58 |
| Health and environment | 43 |
| Science and technology | 18 |
The canon
The purest instances over the years: one story per episode, by coordinate on this axis.
| Date | Story | coord | energy |
|---|
| 2012-05-09 | Andy Warhol's Double Elvis sells at an auction for $37 million at Sotheby's in New York City. | 0.32 | 0.7 |
| 2010-12-10 | An auction of Picasso paintings is postponed in Paris. | 0.31 | 0.7 |
| 2009-09-22 | Flavors Banned From Cigarettes to Deter Youths | 0.31 | 2.2 |
| 2015-08-27 | Walmart will stop selling the AR-15 and other semi-automatic rifles allegedly because of sluggish customer demand. | 0.30 | 0.7 |
| 2010-10-11 | The government of Bolivia annuls a new coca production law which cut the number of leaves growers could sell following widespread protests. | 0.30 | 0.7 |
| 2002-02-16 | 275 animal rights activists unite in front of the D.C. Neiman Marcus to demand that the company stop supporting the fur industry. | 0.29 | 0.7 |
| 2019-02-19 | Ford Motor Company will stop selling commercial trucks in South America. | 0.29 | 0.7 |
| 2023-09-07 | British American Tobacco to end sales in Russia within a month | 0.29 | 0.7 |
| 2019-11-18 | Thousands of Bolivian coca farmers came out in protest in favour of Evo Morales and called for the resignation of Añez as Acting President. | 0.29 | 0.7 |
| 2008-10-21 | Greenwatch: eBay bans ivory sales | 0.28 | 2.2 |
| 2024-12-10 | Federal Judge Blocks $25 Billion Kroger-Albertsons Grocery Merger | 0.28 | 2.2 |
| 2023-02-14 | Sri Lanka announces a ban on disposable cutlery, cocktail shakers, and artificial plants beginning in June, citing the risk of plastic pollution on its wildlife. | 0.28 | 0.7 |
| 2022-03-09 | John Deere announces that it will suspend shipments to Russia and Belarus following the invasion. | 0.28 | 0.7 |
| 2000-10-31 | US group takes biscuit empire | 0.28 | 0.7 |
| 2009-09-24 | Neigh? Picasso horse doodle expected to fetch £20,000 at auction | 0.28 | 0.7 |
| 2008-10-28 | Controversy Over Legal Ivory Sale | 0.28 | 2.8 |
| 2000-11-10 | Art record Picasso painting goes for £39m at auction | 0.28 | 0.7 |
| 2005-11-12 | Duke's collection of art estimated to fetch £1m | 0.28 | 0.7 |
| 2006-09-03 | Ford shelves plan to sell off Jaguar and Land-Rover | 0.28 | 0.7 |
| 2016-09-21 | UK to crack down on illegal ivory sales | 0.28 | 0.7 |
| 2012-05-15 | A customer of American multinational retail corporation Wal-Mart is bitten by a rattlesnake on the premises of the Clarkston, Washington store. | 0.28 | 0.7 |
| 2017-12-09 | The 1.6-hectare populated hamlet of Alwine in Uebigau-Wahrenbrück district, Germany, is sold for 140,000 € at a public auction. | 0.28 | 0.7 |
| 2021-12-22 | A landowner and an earthmoving business each face 126 charges for the deaths of 70 koalas last year at a partially cleared tree plantation in Cape Bridgewater, Victoria, Australia. | 0.28 | 0.7 |
| 2013-04-21 | Online auctioneer eBay asks its customers to fight against a proposed U.S. online sales tax. | 0.27 | 0.7 |
| 2015-11-09 | Amedeo Modigliani's 1917 painting Nu couché sells at an auction at Christie's for $170.4 million, the second highest price for a painting on record. | 0.27 | 0.7 |
| 2013-05-16 | A topless painting of actress Bea Arthur sells for US$2 million at auction. | 0.27 | 0.7 |
| 2013-08-28 | Jammie Dodger maker Burton's Biscuits up for sale | 0.27 | 0.7 |
| 2015-06-22 | Walmart, the largest store in the United States, announces that it will withdraw all merchandise featuring the Confederate flag from sale at its stores and online. | 0.27 | 0.7 |
| 2018-02-28 | Walmart and Dick’s Raise Minimum Age for Gun Buyers to 21 | 0.27 | 3.2 |
| 2005-10-18 | Protests halt online auction to shoot stag | 0.27 | 0.7 |
| 2012-04-06 | A ban on the display of tobacco products by retailers comes into force in England. Lawmakers hope it will lead to a reduction in the number of young people taking up smoking. | 0.27 | 0.7 |
| 2010-06-24 | Imperial Tobacco in legal action to stop Scots banning shop cigarette displays | 0.27 | 0.7 |
| 2002-09-19 | Protesters win battle to stop Hershey sell-off | 0.27 | 2.8 |
| 2023-12-17 | Vase woman buys for $3.99 at Virginia thrift shop sells for more than $100,000 | 0.27 | 2.2 |
| 2012-02-08 | Vincent Van Gogh, Edgar Degas and Camille Pissarro artworks, from the personal collection of Elizabeth Taylor, sell for £13.7 million at Christie's in London. | 0.27 | 0.7 |
| 2005-09-28 | Large volume of ivory sold in UK despite bans | 0.27 | 0.7 |
| 2012-03-02 | Nestlé and Danone are said to be bidding for the infant nutrition business that Pfizer is about to put up for sale. | 0.27 | 0.7 |
| 2022-03-10 | Video game companies Nintendo and Sony Interactive Entertainment suspend all product sales in Russia. Sony's online PlayStation Store will also no longer be available in Russia. | 0.27 | 0.7 |
| 2004-03-09 | Poster art likely to fetch up to £200,000 | 0.27 | 0.7 |
| 2002-11-26 | Victorian taxidermy museum up for sale | 0.27 | 0.7 |