New Zealand writer Craig Cliff won best first book for A Man Melting, a collection of short stories.

BBC: Aminatta Forna wins Commonwealth Writers' honour

But the young man also brought a rare collection of qualities to his self-appointed task.

ECONOMIST: Lexington

Earlier this month a man held a tax-collection employee hostage for several hours in Bergamo, north of Milan.

ECONOMIST: Italian politics

But even in this collection of giants, one man always stands foremost: George Washington.

FORBES: Magazine Article

And we reported on a 93-year-old man in North Carolina who is selling his personal collection of 30 gigantic windmills to build a local theme park.

ENGADGET: Inhabitat's Week in Green: solar panel printer, gold producing bacteria and a life-size of horse made of computer keys

Clay Carson, money aside, we should note that this is an extraordinary collection of documents that really speaks to the man, King.

NPR: The Significance of MLK's Personal Papers

It includes a collection of grave goods with the bodies of a man and a woman from the 4th Century, who both died in their mid-20s.

BBC: Roman remains make public debut

It's the collection of masterfully carved and ornamented frames around the pictures in the deceased man's front hall.

FORBES: The Frame Game

Umasi, a collection of work by artist Wells Mason, blurs the line between sculpture and furniture, with man-made materials such as stainless steel and tempered glass colliding with organic (exquisitely finished woods) and even obviously salvaged materials (a telephone pole, recycled rubber, bicycle parts).

FORBES: Above photo courtesy of John Langford