Thu 28 October 2021: “Wow!” In front of us, dozens, hundreds, thousands of metal boxes. This barn is full of them. Of all colors, all shapes, all brands. There are cookies. Further on, chocolate. Above, boxes of toffee and also caramels. Some are simply rectangular. Others are shaped like maps of the world, handbags, planes […]
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Thu 28 October 2021: Emmanuel Macron, the French President, was a special guest at a ceremony commemorating the return of looted treasures to Benin. The “Abomey Treasures” are a collection of 26 artefacts taken from the African country by the French soldiers 129 years ago. The relics, which include wooden anthropomorphic statues, royal thrones, and […]
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Tue 26 October 2021: An exhibition featuring a selection of photographs from the Istanbul Photo Awards 2021, an international news photography competition, is being held at the UN headquarters, Anadolu News Agency reports. After the event’s opening at the Turkevi Centre, or Turkish House, in New York City, the annual exhibition was opened to the public on […]
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Mon 25 October 2021: On Sunday, a pair of sneakers worn by NBA legend Michael Jordan as a rookie in 1984-85 sold at Sotheby’s for about $1.5 million. The iconic athlete wore the red-and-white shoes in the Chicago Bulls’ fifth game of the season, and Nike’s Jordan-affiliated brand rapidly became a sensation both on and […]
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Sun 24 October 2021: According to the auction house Sotheby’s website, 11 paintings by Pablo Picasso were sold for $108.8 million in Las Vegas, just days before the Spanish painter’s 140th birthday. The first-of-its-kind auction included Picasso’s works from the MGM Resorts Fine Art Collection that had been on display for years in Bellagio Hotel’s […]
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Sat 23 October 2021: Remains of 29 people, including three children, buried more than a millennium ago, were discovered a few weeks ago by a team of archaeologists at the Huaca Santa Rosa de Pucalá, an ancient ceremonial center in Lambayeque, 750 km north of Lima, that could help experts rewrite the history of the […]
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Sat 23 October 2021: Christie’s will offer collectors a chance to purchase rare portraits of six Ottoman sultans at the end of October. The portraits of Orhan Gazi, Bayezid I, Isa Chelebi, Mehmed I, Selim I and Selim II will be under the hammer at the British auction house on Oct. 28 and are expected […]
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Fri 22 October 2021: A suspected poacher was crushed to death by an elephant in South Africa’s iconic Kruger National Park, according to a spokesman. According to Kruger spokesman Isaac Phaahla, the mangled body was discovered Thursday during an intelligence operation aimed to prevent poaching. However, before any animals were hurt, Phaahla reported, an elephant […]
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Thu 21 October 2021: “Big John,” a 66 million-year-old triceratops skeleton nearly eight metres in length, was auctioned off to a US collector on Thursday for 6.6 million euros ($7.74 million). The hammer price at the Drouot auction house, before commission and other costs, was 5.5 million euros. Big John roamed the lands of modern-day […]
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Wed 20 October 2021: In India, a woman who claims to be at least 70 years old gave birth, making her one of the world’s oldest mothers. Jivunben Rabari from western Gujarat state conceived through in vitro fertilization (IVF) treatment, according to Naresh Bhanushali, who runs an IVF center in the Bhuj area of the […]
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