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    McDonald's McNuggets are going fowl-free.

    The Chicago-based fast food giant is introducing plant-based McNuggets next week. Germany will be the first market to get them.

    McPlant Nuggets — made from peas, corn and wheat with a tempura batter — are the second product McDonald's has co-developed with Beyond Meat, an El Segundo, California-based maker of plant-based proteins. McDonald's has been selling a McPlant burger since 2021, although its popularity has wavered.

    McDonald's said the nationwide nugget rollout to more than 1,400 restaurants in Germany follows a limited-time test at nine restaurants in the Stuttgart area in August. McDonald's will also start selling the McPlant burger in Germany next week.

    Availability hinges on demand

    Availability of the McPlant nuggets and burger in future markets will depend on customer demand, McDonald's said.

    European customers have generally been more receptive to McDonald's plant-based meat products than those in the U.S. The McPlant burger is now a permanent menu item in the United Kingdom, Ireland, Austria and the Netherlands. Last month, McDonald's rolled out the Double McPlant burger in the U.K. and Ireland.

    But in the U.S., McDonald's ended a test of the McPlant burger last summer without announcing any future plans for its sale.

    Beyond Meat began selling plant-based chicken in U.S. groceries in 2021. It has also co-developed plant-based tenders and nuggets with other chains, including KFC and Panda Express.
    Keep your friends close and your enemies closer.

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    First-gen iPhone fetches $63,000 at auction

    A 2007 first-generation iPhone was sold for $63,356 at LCG Auctions on Sunday, exceeding expectations of around $50,000.

    The original iPhone was sealed in its original packaging and had never been opened, according to LCG Auctions.

    Karen Green, the original owner of the phone, went on the talk show “The Doctor & The Diva” to have it appraised in 2019, where experts estimated it was worth about $5,000, largely due to it being in its original packaging and it being an 8GB model. Green said on the show that her friends bought her the phone, but she never bothered to open the package since she had just gotten a new phone.

    “I didn’t want to get rid of my new phone, and I figured it’s an iPhone, so it will never go out of date,” she said in 2019.

    Twenty-seven bids were placed on the iPhone between Feb. 2 and Sunday, with the first bid starting at $2,500.

    Other first-generation iPhones have recently been auctioned off for about $35,000 and about $39,000 over the past year, according to LCG Auctions.

    When the first-generation 8GB iPhone came out in 2007, it cost $599. Now, Apple has just released its latest version of the product in 2022, with the iPhone 14 costing between $799 and $1,199, according to Apple’s website.

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    Egypt reveals newly discovered 9-meter long chamber inside Great Pyramid

    Egypt unveiled the discovery of long corridor inside the Great Pyramid of Giza on Thursday, the first to be found on the structure’s north side.

    The corridor, which measures 9 meters (nearly 30 feet) by 2 meters (more than 6 feet), is perched above the famous structure’s main entrance and was detected using a scan, authorities said. The function of the chamber is currently unknown, although such corridors often lead to further archaeological discoveries.

    Egyptian archaeologist Zahi Hawass and the country’s Minister for Tourism Ahmed Eissa, announced the discovery at the pyramid’s base.

    The chamber was discovered by the Scan Pyramids project, an international programm that uses scans to look at unexplored sections of the ancient structure.

    The pyramid about 11 miles from Cairo’s center is also known as Khufu’s Pyramid for its builder, a 4th Dynasty pharaoh who reigned from 2509 to 2483 B.C.

    The ancient structure is the last surviving wonder of the ancient world. It has captivated visitors since it was built as a royal burial chamber some 4,500 years ago. Experts are divided over how it and other pyramids were constructed, so even relatively minor discoveries generate great interest.

    Egypt often publicly touts ancient discoveries to attract more tourists, a major source of foreign currency for the cash-strapped North African country. The sector suffered a long downturn after the political turmoil and violence that followed a 2011 uprising.

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    Quote Originally Posted by s landreth View Post
    egypt often publicly touts ancient discoveries
    original pyramid sales

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    Over 190 countries reach historic deal to protect oceans

    Environmentalists have hailed a historic deal to protect oceans reached at the United Nations headquarters in New York City by over 190 countries over the weekend as "the biggest conservation agreement in the history of the world."

    Why it matters: The High Seas Treaty moves to protect 30% of the world’s oceans by 2030 with the aim of halting and reversing the current extinction crisis, per Axios' Ben Geman.





    • It's the first common framework agreement since countries adopted the UN Convention on the Law of the Sea in 1982.


    The big picture: Countries agreed to the finalized text of the treaty on Saturday night after 38 hours of negotiations and nearly two decades of talks — which the BBC notes were marked by disputes about fishing rights and funding.


    • The consensus followed a pledge by nations at the UN biodiversity conference in Montreal last December.


    What they're saying: UN Secretary-General António Guterres welcomed the agreement as "an important step to protect our oceans" and a "victory for multilateralism."


    • Gladys Martínez de Lemos, from nonprofit Interamerican Association for Environmental Defense, said in a statement the agreement "strengthens the legal protection of two-thirds of the ocean and with it marine biodiversity and the livelihoods of coastal communities."
    • Greenpeace spokesperson Arlo Hemphill in a statement praised the "biggest conservation agreement in the history of the world" for providing a "pathway to establish marine sanctuaries so that countries can turn" their 30x30 Pledge into a reality.
    • Georgetown marine biologist Rebecca Helm said there are really only "two major global commons — the atmosphere and the oceans," per AP.


    • Helm added that oceans attracted less attention, but "protecting this half of earth’s surface is absolutely critical to the health of our planet."


    What we're watching: The agreement is subject to the formal approval of countries.


    • Liz Karan, from nonprofit Pews Trust, told the BBC the treaty would "take some time to take effect" as nations must "ratify it for it to enter force."

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    Great move in the right direction.one day it will be normal not strange news.

    I guess the devil will be in the detail of enforcement

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    Quote Originally Posted by david44 View Post
    I guess the devil will be in the detail of enforcement
    Going to be a few years before things are settled and signed.

    it is still expected to take years for the treaty to be formally adopted by member states and come into force

    But it’s a good start.

    Maybe then it will be worthy of a World News thread.

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    Quote Originally Posted by S Landreth View Post
    Over 190 countries reach historic deal to protect oceans

    There are 193 UN Members.

    So which 3 said poke it?

    And well done to, at least, 41 landlocked countries out of 44.

    Liechtenstein and Uzbekistan are both doubly landlocked. Do they get a pass?

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    ^Maybe it is 193.

    More than 190

    __________

    I did find a lengthy informative article at Carbon Brief that should answer a lot of questions.




    Nations around the world have agreed to a new global treaty for governing the sustainable use and conservation of the so-called “high seas” – areas of the ocean that lie outside of any single nation’s jurisdiction.

    The agreement on “biodiversity beyond national jurisdiction”, better known by the acronym “BBNJ”, establishes a new United Nations body to oversee the implementation of the principles and approaches laid out within the text.

    The treaty was nearly 20 years in the making and, right up until the last moments, it was unclear to observers whether an agreement would even be reached during the marathon session, which took place at the UN headquarters in New York.

    Negotiations stretched well past their scheduled end, carrying on through the night of 3 March and only concluding at 9:53pm on 4 March, ending two weeks of talks.

    Issues of access – from too-small meeting rooms to the inconsistent availability of interpreters – arose at several points throughout the negotiations.

    Some observers also objected to the shorthand terminology of the “high seas” treaty, saying that it centres the principle on the “freedom of the seas” instead of international waters being a common good for humankind. Both overarching principles made it into the final text.

    The drawn-out negotiating process means that the agreement still needs to be formally adopted and ratified. But the draft treaty is being hailed as a success by many.

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    better known by the acronym “BBNJ”

    Snigger. That’s awfully close to a rude acronym…

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    Thanks for stalking, right here in World News.

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    Elvis’ private jet arrives in Florida; new owner to transform it

    After sitting in a New Mexico desert for about 40 years, a private jet once owned by Elvis Presley has made it to Tampa Bay, Florida.

    The King of Rock ‘n’ Roll’s 1962 Lockheed JetStar is being stored in Plant City by owner James Webb of “Jimmy’s World” on YouTube, who bought it for $234,000.

    “Airplane itself is flipping cool, even without the obvious connection, but if you add in the Elvis connection, there’s no rock ‘n’ roll star bigger than Elvis, in my opinion,” Webb said.

    The jet was transported from Roswell, New Mexico, to Florida, traveling more than 1,600 miles.

    According to People magazine, the battered jet, which had been parked at the Roswell International Air Center in New Mexico, sold at auction on Jan 8 — which would have been Presley’s 88th birthday.

    Presley bought the jet, which seats up to nine, on Dec. 22, 1976, for $840,000. It was one of several jets in his personal fleet, according to the auction site. Two of them are currently being displayed at Graceland, the star’s home.

    Nexstar’s WFLA got the opportunity to tour the inside of the plane Thursday.

    The interior of the aircraft was clean, for the most part, with swiveling seats covered in soft, red velvet. There was a television on one of the walls and a microwave toward the back of the plane — which still turns on and “dings.”

    Webb is known for buying planes and giving them new life while documenting the process on his YouTube channel.

    He said the jet will be transformed into an RV to tour the country and raise funds for charities, such as St. Jude’s Children’s Research Hospital.

    “We’re going to be able to create such a unique, Elvis-type of experience that the whole world would get to enjoy. Even more than if it was flying or stationary at Graceland,” Webb said.

    Webb said he hopes to have the RV ready to tour within one year. He plans to post updates on his YouTube channel.

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    Japan’s most familiar orchid is found to have near-identical cousin


    In Japan, a country with a rich and ancient history of horticulture, it is nowadays extremely rare for a new plant species to be identified. But the latest one has been growing under their noses, and it is exceptionally beautiful.

    Spiranthes hachijoensis, whose rosy pink petals bear a striking resemblance to glasswork, can be found in common environments such as lawns and parks, and even in private gardens and on balconies, and yet until now it had not been named. That is because until now it was believed that all the Spiranthes on the Japanese mainland were a single species, when in fact there are two.

    Spiranthes australis, commonly known to gardeners in the west as lady’s tresses, is Japan’s most familiar orchid. It has been cherished – and documented – there for centuries, even appearing in the Manyoshu, Japan’s oldest extant anthology of poetry, dating back to AD759.

    It was while looking at Spiranthes australis during fieldwork that Prof Kenji Suetsugu, of Kobe University, noticed that some apparently common or garden Spiranthes had hairless stems while most were notably furrier. Suetsugu and colleagues from Tohoku University and the Taiwan Forestry Research Institute embarked on a decade-long study of the flowers, collecting specimens from locations in Japan, Taiwan and Laos.

    Integrating results from DNA analysis, morphology, field observations and reproductive biology, Suetsugu and his associates discovered that the new hachijoensis taxon was a cryptic species exhibiting a high level of molecular divergence from their australis cousins, despite their apparent similarities. Spiranthes hachijoensis often grows alongside Spiranthes australis, but blooms about a month earlier.

    That the common Spiranthes is actually divided into two species is likely to pique the curiosity of the general public, researchers say. Suetsugu added: “This discovery of new species concealed in common locales underscores the necessity of persistent exploration, even in seemingly unremarkable settings. It also highlights the ongoing need for taxonomic and genetic research to accurately assess species diversity.”

    Their findings are published in the Journal of Plant Research.

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    Pet Owners Freak After ‘Phantom Cat Shaver’ Attacks 80 Felines

    An unknown creep in the U.K. has been shaving people’s pet cats, and at least 80 furry friends have fallen victim so far. Pet owners are on high alert as the bizarre, invasive trend rises, especially given that so many let their cats freely roam. “We would urge any owners whose cats have been victims of the shaving to book an appointment with their vet,” Samantha Watson, a cat expert with the Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, told The Washington Post. The attacks have been centered in Kent, England, and some owners have said their cats were unharmed—aside from the shaving—while others have reported their cats injured. Watson suggested cat owners get the police involved as shaving a cat could lead to criminal charges, she says. Natasha McPhee, who runs charity Animals Lost and Found, called the shavings “cruel and senseless,” and said it seems like the work of multiple assailants. One pet owner told local media she “was so angry” that “some nasty human” had shaved her rescue cat George as he’s now “even more skittish” around people.

    https://www.thedailybeast.com/pet-ow...cks-80-felines

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    Dalai Lama apologises after kissing boy and asking him to ‘suck my tongue’

    The Dalai Lama has apologised after he faced allegations of inappropriate behaviour after kissing a young boy on the lips and asking him to “suck his tongue” at a public event in India.

    The interaction, which took place in late February at the Dalai Lama’s temple in Dharamshala, was attended by about 100 young students who had just graduated from the Indian M3M Foundation.

    The Dalai Lama, Tenzin Gyatso, is the holiest figure in Tibetan Buddhism and has lived in exile in India since 1959, when Tibet was annexed by China.

    In a video that has gone viral, one of the young male students approached a microphone at the event and asked the Dalai Lama: “Can I hug you?”

    The Dalai Lama, 87, told the boy to come up to the platform where he was seated. Motioning to his cheek, he is heard saying “first here”, after which the child kissed him and gave him a hug.

    The Dalai Lama kept hold of the boy, saying “I think here also” and then planted a kiss on his lips. “And suck my tongue,” the Dalai Lama then said, sticking out his tongue, forehead to forehead with the student. The boy quickly stuck out his own tongue and went to move away while the Dalai Lama laughed and pulled the boy in for another hug, as the audience laughed.


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    It’s Sunday and this might be nice article for the Christians here at TD to think about.




    A 95m-year-old dinosaur skull discovered in Winton, Queensland, has been identified by palaeontologists as the first nearly complete sauropod skull ever found in Australia.

    The skull belongs to a Diamantinasaurus matildae dinosaur, nicknamed Ann, that lived between 95m and 98m years ago. It is only the fourth specimen of this species ever discovered.




    The study’s lead researcher, Dr Stephen Poropat of Curtin University, said it was “really amazing to be able to find a skull at all – they’re quite rare, and even more so to get so much of one that had been preserved”.

    Sauropods were a group of long-necked dinosaurs that included Brachiosaurus and Brontosaurus. They had small skulls relative to their body size, with delicate skull bones.

    “They would have been a good target for a predatory dinosaur or even a scavenging animal,” Poropat said. “They would have looked at a sauropod carcass and [thought]: ‘The easiest thing to take away is their head.’”

    He said that with previous sauropod discoveries, “You’ll sometimes follow a string of neck vertebrae and come to nothing at the end of it because the head had gone.”

    Diamantinasaurus matildae was a titanosaur, a type of sauropod that included the largest land animals in historical existence. The discovery of the Diamantinasaurus skull enables scientists to recreate for the first time what the dinosaur’s face may have looked like.

    “In some ways, the head looks very much like that of Brachiosaurus,” Poropat said, noting there were some differences in shape and its teeth.

    “Because [Diamantinasaurus] has a rounded snout instead of a squared-off snout, we can say it was a generalist browser – it was not feeding close to the ground habitually.”

    “When we see sauropods that were low feeders, they tend to have much narrower teeth, they tend to have snouts that are sort of squared-off, almost like vacuum cleaners.”

    The Diamantinasaurus skull had many similarities to another titanosaur, Sarmientosaurus musacchioi, which lived in South America around the same time. “You could almost put Sarmientosaurus’s head on Diamantinasaurus’s body and barely be able to tell the difference,” Poropat said.

    The researchers believe the discovery reinforces a hypothesis that during the mid-Cretaceous period – 95m to 100m years ago – sauropods traversed between South America and Australia, using Antarctica as a pathway.

    “Because the world was extremely warm … the poles were vegetated, not covered in ice,” Poropat said. “It would seem that sauropods took advantage of this really warm period.”

    Ann likely measured 15 metres to 16 metres long from head to tail. The maximum size for Diamantinasaurus is about 20 metres long, 3 to 3.5 metres high at the shoulders, with a weight of 23 to 25 tonnes.

    “As far as sauropods go, they’re medium-sized,” Poropat said. “The largest [sauropods] push 40 metres in length and 80 tonnes in mass.”

    The Diamantinasaurus skull was found during a dig in 2018 but has remained unreported until now. The process involved taking off topsoil after finding bone fragments at the surface.

    “We started finding mostly limb bones and vertebrae, but around one of the limb bones there were scattered small bones and … it was hard to place what they were,” Poropat said.

    Mel O’Brien, a volunteer, then found “a really weird-looking bit of bone that we eventually realised had to be a brain case. That then made all the other bits fall into place – we realised that we had a skull that had basically exploded and the bits were scattered around the back leg bones.”

    The excavation was conducted in collaboration with the Australian Age of Dinosaurs Museum of Natural History, citizen scientists and volunteers.

    The study was published in the journal Royal Society Open Science.

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    Montevideo Maru: wreck of ship sunk in Australia’s worst maritime disaster found after 80 years

    The wreck of a ship caught up in Australia’s worst ever maritime disaster has been found 4,000 metres under the sea, 80 years after it was torpedoed by an American submarine.

    The Montevideo Maru, discovered off the coast of the Philippines, sank with about 980 Australian troops and civilians on board – almost twice as many Australians killed than during the Vietnam war.

    The USS Sturgeon torpedoed the Japanese transport ship on 1 July 1942 during the second world war, not knowing it was carrying prisoners of war and captured civilians.

    About 1,060 prisoners died when it sank, with those on board ranging from a 15-year-old boy to men in their 60s.

    The prisoners had been captured in the fall of Rabaul , then in the Australian Mandated Territory of New Guinea and now in Papua New Guinea, months earlier.

    A team set out on an expedition to find the wreck in the South China Sea, north-west of Luzon, on 6 April this year and discovered it after 12 days, with help from state-of-the-art technology including an autonomous underwater vehicle.

    The group of maritime archaeologists, conservators, operations and research specialists, and ex-naval officers, took days to verify the wreck was indeed the Montevideo Maru.

    The Australian prime minister, Anthony Albanese, said the discovery would bring “a measure of comfort to loved ones who have kept a long vigil”.

    The mission was put together by Sydney’s Silentworld Foundation, a not-for-profit organisation dedicated to maritime archaeology and history, along with Dutch deep-sea survey specialists Fugro.

    The Department of Defence also supported the project to find the wreck, which Silentworld director John Mullen said closed a “terrible chapter in Australian military and maritime history”.

    “Families waited years for news of their missing loved ones, before learning of the tragic outcome of the sinking,” said Mullen, a maritime history philanthropist and explorer.

    “Some never fully came to accept that their loved ones were among the victims.

    “Today, by finding the vessel, we hope to bring closure to the many families devastated by this terrible disaster.”

    Andrea Williams, an Australian whose grandfather and great uncle died in the Montevideo Maru disaster, was among those on board when the wreck was discovered.

    She is a founding member of the Rabaul and Montevideo Maru Society, formed in 2009, which represents descendants’ interests.

    Williams described the discovery as marking an “extraordinarily momentous day” for Australians connected with the disaster.

    “Having had a grandfather and great-uncle as civilian internees on Montevideo Maru always meant the story was important to me, as it is to so many generations of families whose men perished,” she said.

    “I could never understand why it was not a more powerful part of our Australian WWII history.”

    The wreck will be left undisturbed, with no human remains or artefacts removed from it and the site recorded for research purposes out of respect for families.

    The Montevideo Maru lies at a depth deeper than the Titanic.

    Australian army chief Lieutenant General Simon Stuart said soldiers who fought to defend Rabaul met a terrible fate on the ship.

    “Today we remember their service, and the loss of all those aboard, including the 20 Japanese guards and crew, the Norwegian sailors and the hundreds of civilians from many nations,” he said.

    The expedition to find the Montevideo Maru was years in the making, with Silentworld planning the discovery mission for five years.

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    Anger as pre-historic stones destroyed for French DIY store

    Around 40 standing stones thought to have been erected by prehistoric humans 7,000 years ago have been destroyed near a famed archaeological site in northwest France to make way for a DIY store, an angry local historian has revealed.

    The stones in Carnac were between 50-100 centimeters (20-40 inches) high and stood close to the main highly protected areas of one of Europe's largest and most mysterious pre-historic tourist attractions.

    "The site has been destroyed," local archaeologist Christian Obeltz told Agence France-Presse (AFP) on Wednesday, June 7, having revealed the clearance of the land in the Ouest-France newspaper.

    He believes 39 standing stones − known as menhirs − have been lost, estimating their age to be around 7,000 years based on carbon dating conducted on stones nearby in 2010.

    The land was granted a building permit from the local mayor's office in August last year and DIY chain Mr. Bricolage is currently building a new store there.

    Mayor Olivier Lepick told AFP that he had "followed the law" and pointed to the "low archaeological value" of objects found during checks before the construction process began. The land was not situated in a protected area and had been earmarked for commercial use, he added.

    Carnac is famed for its vast fields of stone megaliths which stand in long lines close to the Atlantic coast in the windswept Brittany region. There are around 3,000 of them in the two main protected areas which extend over more than six kilometers (four miles).

    The stones are thought to have had a sacred and funereal function, although various theories exist. The Regional Office of Cultural Affairs (Drac) for Brittany, which is responsible for ensuring the law protecting cultural monuments is respected, played down the importance of the losses.

    "Given the uncertain and in any case non-major character of the remains, as revealed by checks, damage to a site of archaeological value has not been established," it said in a statement on Wednesday.

    But local archaeologist Obeltz believes local authorities failed to properly investigate. "There weren't archaeological excavations in order to know if the stones were menhirs or not," he said.

    When contacted, the Mr. Bricolage group said it "sincerely regretted the situation" but pointed to authorizations for its store granted last year.

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    Gustav Klimt’s Lady with a Fan sells for £85.3m, breaking European record




    Gustav Klimt’s painting Dame mit Fächer (Lady with a Fan) has sold for £85.3m at Sotheby’s, becoming the most valuable work of art ever sold at auction in Europe.

    In its first market appearance in 29 years, the late Austrian painter’s final masterpiece exceeded pre-sale expectations of £65m when it went under the hammer in London on Tuesday, and also set a new record for the artist.

    Following a 10-minute bidding war between four bidders, the painting was sold to Patti Wong, founder of Patti Wong & Associates, bidding in the saleroom for a Hong Kong collector.

    The final price of £85.3m ($108.m, €99.2m) surpassed the £65m achieved for Alberto Giacometti’s sculpture L’homme qui marche I (The Walking Man I), which sold at Sotheby’s London in 2010.

    Helena Newman, the chair of Sotheby’s Europe and worldwide head of impressionist and modern art, said: “Dame mit Fächer is the last portrait Gustav Klimt created before his untimely death, when still in his artistic prime and producing some of his most accomplished and experimental works.

    “Many of those works, certainly the portraits for which he is best known, were commissions. This, though, is something completely different – a technical tour de force, full of boundary-pushing experimentation, as well as a heartfelt ode to absolute beauty.”

    Dame mit Fächer, which is a portrait of an unnamed woman, was still standing on an easel in Klimt’s studio at the time of the artist’s untimely death in 1918, aged 55, during his artistic prime.

    The Austrian drew principally on Chinese motifs with the use of the phoenix and lotus blossoms while his flattening of the background and juxtaposition of patterns reflected his interest in Japanese woodblock prints.

    The previous auction record for Klimt was $104.6m for Birch Forest, which sold last year in New York.

    Dame mit Fächer was last offered for sale at Sotheby’s in New York in 1994, when it was acquired for $11.6m, which at the time set an auction record for the artist.

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    Wow, how massively strange.



    I see you're fvcking up yet another thread, you nutter.

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    I was wondering similar.

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    Quote Originally Posted by cyrille View Post
    I see you're fvcking up yet another thread, you nutter.
    my thread

    you don't have to open it dip chit

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    Quote Originally Posted by S Landreth View Post
    my thread

    you don't have to open it dip chit

    Being an OP does not mean you own it. Ownership notwithstanding Cyrille’s comment stands. The post above is not even vaguely unusual. Why ruin a decent thread? Are you that bored in life? Do you gain gratification for each cut n paste?

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    So gratification then?

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