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Post by hi224 on Oct 26, 2018 4:34:25 GMT
Boy punches hole through Paolo Porpora painting
One of the art world’s most recent mishaps happened in Taiwan in August 2015 when a 12-year-old boy visiting an exhibition, The Face of Leonardo: Images of a Genius at Taipei’s Huashan 1914 Creative Park, tripped and fell into a painting. The artwork in question – a 350-year-old still life entitled Flowers by Italian painter Paolo Porpora valued at $1.5 million – was left with a fist-sized hole punched through its bottom right corner. Luckily the painting, which is owned by a private collector, is insured and due to be restored by expert art conservator Tsai Shun-Jen.
Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge | © Andrew Dunn/Flickr
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Post by politicidal on Oct 26, 2018 16:54:57 GMT
The life of Robert Ripley.
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Post by Sulla on Oct 26, 2018 17:32:21 GMT
Bury My Heart At Wounded Knee by Dee Brown Excerpt from Chapter 18 - "Dance Of The Ghosts"
In the Summer of 1883, when the Northern Pacific Railroad celebrated the driving of the last spike in its transcontinental track, one of the officials in charge of ceremonies decided it would be fitting for an Indian chief to be present to make a speech of welcome to the Great Father and other notables. Sitting Bull was the choice--no other Indian was even considered--and a young Army officer who understood the Sioux language was assigned to work with the chief in preparation of a speech. It was to be delivered in Sioux and then translated by the officer.
On September 8 Sitting Bull and the young Bluecoat arrived at Bismarck for the big celebration. They rode at the head of a parade and then sat on the speakers' platform. When Sitting Bull was introduced, he arose and began delivering his speech in Sioux. The young officer listened in dismay. Sitting Bull had changed the flowery text of welcome. "I hate all the white people," he was saying. "You are thieves and liars. You have taken away our land and made us outcasts." Knowing that only the Army officer could understand what he was saying, Sitting Bull paused occasionally for applause; he bowed, smiled, then uttered a few more insults. At last he sat down, and the bewildered interpreter took his place. The officer had only a short translation written out, a few friendly phrases, but by adding several well-worn Indian metaphors, he brought the audience to its feet with a standing ovation for Sitting Bull. The Hunkpapa chief was so popular that the railroad officials took him to St. Paul for another ceremony.
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Post by koskiewicz on Oct 27, 2018 13:58:11 GMT
That time when George HW Bush upchucked on the Japanese government guy...
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