Talon Merchant Capital, a private equity group in Chicago, is buying Lava World International from Haggerty Enterprises, also of Chicago. The company will sell lava lamps to more countries. The new owners are also planning new versions of the lava lamp featuring children’s characters and new colors. The lava lamp was first made in 1963, went out of fashion in the late 1970s, and came back in the 1990s.
George Washington’s boyhood home in Virginia was excavated over the past seven years, and more than 500,000 artifacts were found. They included nails, glass, building parts, soil samples, and bits and pieces of all kinds. But alas, no hatchet and no traces of a cherry tree.
The original “lava lamp” was patented in the United States in 1971 by English designer Edward C. Walker.
