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Scottish landmark beats Taj Mahal, Colosseum & Route 66 in Brits’ top Bucket List destination
A SCOTTISH landmark has beaten iconic tourist hotspots including the Taj Mahal, Maldives and Route 66, in Brits’ top Bucket List destinations. A list of the top 40 dream holiday bucket list ...
The World’s 50 Most Beautiful Cities, Ranked by Travel Experts
Beauty may very well be in the eye of the beholder, but more than 1,000 travel bloggers, writers, and agents can't be wrong ...
An Innocent Abroad in Mark Twain’s Paris
My quest for a true literary experience resulted in choucroute, a surprise organ feast, an epiphany at the Louvre, ...
Former OpenAI Exec Zack Kass On Why Indies Stand To Benefit From AI More Than Studios: "It Lowers The Barrier To Creating Value" – The Deadline Q&A
AI is arguably one of the hottest topics on the lips of global entertainment industry figures at the moment. At this year's ...
Manchester City’s top 25 signings of all time, ranked
With the opening of the summer transfer window, it seems only fitting to take a trip back down memory lane to rank the top 25 Manchester City signings of all time. 180 years ago, in the Parish of East ...
A tale of three cities
Bookshops in Bergen, Berlin and Paris offer browsers plenty of opportunity to discover new authors and stock up on old ones ...
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The Incredible True Story of How the Mona Lisa and the French Crown Jewels Escaped the Nazis
At 8 A.M. on August 25, 1939, two months after Reich Propaganda Minister Joseph Goebbels roused the people ... The Louvre staff sent the first artworks, including the Mona Lisa—gingerly ...
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The Incredible True Story of How the Mona Lisa and the French Crown Jewels Escaped the Nazis
At 8 A.M. on August 25, 1939, two months after Reich Propaganda Minister Joseph Goebbels roused the people ... the Mona Lisa and the French crown jewels—off the walls. The Louvre staff sent ...
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The world might have lost Mona Lisa’s mysterious smile forever—if not for one man’s daring plan
Picture this ... evacuate the Louvre. Not just a few pieces. Thousands. And that included Leonardo da Vinci’s iconic Mona Lisa. On August 25, 1939, with war just days away, the Louvre shut ...
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Erik Brady: Elaine Sciolino is Buffalo's gift to Paris − and now, too, to the Louvre
"And we always had to see the Mona Lisa ... with people, which is how she could charm a curator into allowing her that one-on-one with the one and only. Let's just say the Louvre is no longer ...
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An American Journalist in Paris Unlocks the Secrets of the Louvre
Yet Paris was no ... The Mona Lisa is obviously the most famous portrait in the Louvre, but it’s far from your favorite. Can you tell me about a painting that you prefer? I think that people ...
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Art heists and frauds: the world of cultural crime
For a time there was uncertainty as to whether the Mona Lisa in the Louvre was the actual painting ... That art crimes were so prevalent came as no surprise to Dr Angel, who explained that such ...