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  • Nazi-Looted Art Panel Rejects Claim From Grosz's Heirs

    10/31/2024 12:51:01 PM PDT · by nickcarraway · 3 replies
    Catherine Hickley ^ | 30/10/2024 | Catherine Hickley
    The panel said there is no evidence that the works, which are held in the collection of Bremen Kunsthalle, were lost as a result of Nazi persecutionGermany’s advisory panel on Nazi-looted art has rejected a claim by the heirs of George Grosz for two of his paintings held in the collection of the Bremen Kunsthalle, saying there is no evidence to support the claimants’ view that they were lost as a result of persecution. The panel said there is no doubt that although Grosz was not Jewish, he “suffered individual persecution under the National Socialists due to his political...
  • As Pete Davidson’s Suddenly Ink-Less Arms Show, Tattoos Are no Longer Forever

    10/30/2024 3:24:44 PM PDT · by nickcarraway · 65 replies
    New York Post ^ | Oct. 30, 2024 | Jeanette Settembre
    Tattoos are no longer forever. Pete Davidson emerged from rehab last week looking like a clean slate. “The King of Staten Island” star, 30, wore a short-sleeve t-shirt to a Los Angeles Clippers game with rapper buddy Machine Gun Kelly and the tattoos that once covered the comedian’s forearms appeared significantly faded and in some cases non-existent. Davidson first started having his tattoos removed years ago, and the process has gotten increasingly popular. A slew of stars — including Johnny Depp, Angelina Jolie and Jessica Alba — have erased ink in recent years, and business is booming for tattoo removal...
  • DEMOCRATS ELECTION CHEATING

    10/30/2024 8:18:57 AM PDT · by BEJ · 87 replies
    BEJ
    I can't believe how many articles posted on Freeper are now pointing to Democrats cheating. The good news is that steps are being taken to counteract some of it. My question is why is it Democrats? Is there some cheating gene they have in their makeup that accounts for this bad behavior? Do they cheat with things other than elections? Are they cheating because they don't know right from wrong? Are they just bad people in general, or misguided to think that their high-minded progressive ends justify any means? If you met one on the street, would they try to...
  • Roundabout the Universe: Jon Anderson Turns 80

    10/25/2024 7:28:12 PM PDT · by Libloather · 33 replies
    Grateful Web ^ | 10/25/24 | gratefulweb
    On this day, October 25th, 2024, we gather around a cosmic campfire to celebrate the marvelous and mystical journey of Jon Anderson, the voice of Yes, the bard of boundless imaginations, as he turns 80. This is not merely a birthday but a grand celestial nod to a man who has gifted us worlds upon worlds of sound—an eternal traveler whose voice has always been our guide through galaxies of the unknown and the fantastical. Jon Anderson is not just a musician. He is a dream-weaver, a spiritual shaman whose career—both with Yes and in his solo voyages—has never been...
  • Massive Hoard of Silver Pennies From Norman Conquest Valued at $5.6M

    10/24/2024 5:00:27 PM PDT · by nickcarraway · 25 replies
    ARTnews ^ | October 24, 2024 | Karen K. Ho
    Massive Hoard of Silver Pennies From Norman Conquest Valued at $5.6MA pile of 1,000-year-old silver pennies from the Chew Valley hoard, which was recently discovered by metal detectorists in Somerset. The treasure sheds new light on the post-Conquest period and the impact of the Norman invasion on England. The pennies were acquired by the South West Heritage Trust for £4.4 million ($5.6 million USD). The hoard of pennies is now the "highest value treasure on record". Courtesy of the British Museum A massive hoard of 1,000-year-old silver pennies found by a group of people learning how to use metal detectors...
  • ‘Eating My Body’: Ringo Starr Reveals Major Health Battle

    10/24/2024 8:03:30 AM PDT · by Red Badger · 53 replies
    Daily Caller ^ | October 18, 2024 | Leena Nasir - Entertainment Reporter
    Ringo Starr opened up about a serious medical condition that caused him to cancel the last few days of his recent tour. The legendary singer clarified previous reports that suggested he was suffering from Covid-19 and set the record straight about his recent health battle in an interview with Variety published Oct. 18. It “knocked me down,” Starr admitted. “It wasn’t the virus — I had that two years ago,” he said, referring to Covid 19. Starr then revealed the horrifying reality he was forced to contend with. “It was a mad thing eating my body, and they found out...
  • Zoom into the first page of ESA Euclid’s great cosmic atlas

    10/23/2024 9:35:30 AM PDT · by Red Badger · 11 replies
    On 15 October 2024, ESA’s Euclid space mission revealed the first piece of its great map of the Universe, showing millions of stars and galaxies. This first chunk of the map, which is a huge mosaic of 208 gigapixels, was revealed at the International Astronautical Congress in Milan, Italy, by ESA’s Director General Josef Aschbacher and Director of Science Carole Mundell. The mosaic contains 260 observations made between 25 March and 8 April 2024. In just two weeks, Euclid covered 132 square degrees of the Southern Sky in pristine detail, more than 500 times the area of the full Moon....
  • Former Actor Frankie Muniz Reveals He’s Becoming A Full-Time NASCAR Racer

    10/23/2024 8:08:59 AM PDT · by Red Badger · 27 replies
    Daily Caller ^ | October 23, 2024 | Leena Nasir - Entertainment Reporter
    “Malcolm in the Middle” actor Frankie Muniz announced he’s making a major pivot in his career. The former actor is shifting gears from Hollywood to the race track as a full-time NASCAR driver, according to a recent interview with People published Oct. 22. The 38-year-old started racing in 2004 and began his professional racecar driving career in 2006. He’ll be racing full-time for Reaume Brothers Racing in the No. 33 F-150 in the NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series’ 2025 season. “I don’t want to say it’s a long time coming, but this has been a dream of mine for forever,” he...
  • Britney Spears Resurfaces in Video to Make Major Announcement: ‘I Married Myself’

    10/21/2024 11:55:11 AM PDT · by Red Badger · 61 replies
    Breitbart ^ | October 21, 2024 | Warner Todd Huston
    Pop superstar Britney Spears has revealed in her latest social media video that she has “married” herself and has proclaimed it the “most brilliant thing” she has ever done. Spears appeared wearing a wedding dress in her October 20 video on Instagram to tell fans that she has “married myself.” The often troubled 42-year-old recorded her video with Sting’s Fields of Gold playing softly n the background, People magazine reported. “The day I married myself … Bringing it back because it might seem embarrassing or stupid, but I think it’s the most brilliant thing I’ve ever done !” Spears wrote...
  • James Webb Telescope Discovers Quasars Where They Shouldn’t Exist

    10/21/2024 5:46:18 AM PDT · by Red Badger · 27 replies
    Scitech Daily ^ | October 21, 2024 | Jennifer Chu, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
    This image, taken by NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope, shows an ancient quasar (circled in red) with fewer than expected neighboring galaxies (bright blobs), challenging physicists’ understanding of how the first quasars and supermassive black holes formed. Credit: Christina Eilers/EIGER team ===================================================================================== Astronomers used the James Webb Space Telescope to detect ancient lonely quasars with murky origins. They appear to have few cosmic neighbors, raising questions about how they first emerged more than 13 billion years ago. A quasar is an incredibly bright region at the center of a galaxy, powered by a supermassive black hole. As this black hole...
  • Hubble Spots a Galaxy Zooming Through Space Like a Cosmic Cannonball

    10/21/2024 5:31:48 AM PDT · by Red Badger · 26 replies
    Scitech Daily ^ | October 21, 2024 | ESA/Hubble
    Spiral galaxy IC 3225, captured in this dynamic image by the Hubble Space Telescope, is seen speeding through space within the dense Virgo galaxy cluster. Credit: ESA/Hubble & NASA, M. Sun =============================================================================== This week, the Hubble Space Telescope brings us the stunning image of IC 3225, a spiral galaxy soaring through the cosmos resembling a comet with a tail of gas. The spiral galaxy featured in this stunning Hubble Space Telescope image is IC 3225. It looks as though it’s been shot from a cannon, racing through space like a comet, with a stream of gas trailing from its disk....
  • Dracula Author's Lost Story Unearthed After 134 Years

    10/19/2024 2:02:14 PM PDT · by nickcarraway · 13 replies
    BBC ^ | 10/20 | Maia Davies
    An amateur historian has discovered a long-lost short story by Bram Stoker, published just seven years before his legendary gothic novel Dracula. Brian Cleary stumbled upon the 134-year-old ghostly tale while browsing the archives of the National Library of Ireland. Gibbet Hill was originally published in a Dublin newspaper in 1890 - when the Irishman started working on Dracula - but has been undocumented ever since. Stoker biographer Paul Murray says the story sheds light on his development as an author and was a significant “station on his route to publishing Dracula”. The ghostly story tells the tale of a...
  • Andrew Garfield Says Mel Gibson ‘Deserves to Make Films’ Because ‘None of Us Are Infallible’

    10/17/2024 9:07:23 PM PDT · by CondoleezzaProtege · 18 replies
    Variety ^ | Oct 2024 | Zack Share
    Andrew Garfield recently told People magazine that Mel Gibson “deserves to make films” and has “done a lot of beautiful healing with himself.” Gibson’s career in Hollywood nosedived after his infamous DUI arrest in 2006, which included the “Braveheart” Oscar winner making comments disparaging Jewish people. Gibson directed Garfield in the 2016 war drama “Hacksaw Ridge,” for which Garfield was Oscar nominated for best actor. The filmmaker landed a best director nom. “I learned a lot, actually. I learned that people can heal. I learned that people can change, that people can get help. I learned that everyone deserves respect,”...
  • Mitzi Gaynor, star of ‘South Pacific,’ dies at 93

    10/17/2024 12:40:47 PM PDT · by Red Badger · 44 replies
    AP News ^ | October 17, 2024 | KAITLYN HUAMANI and BOB THOMAS -
    LOS ANGELES (AP) — Mitzi Gaynor, the effervescent dancer and actor who starred as Nellie Forbush in the 1958 film of "South Pacific" and appeared in other musicals with Bing Crosby, Frank Sinatra and Gene Kelly, has died. She was 93. Gaynor, among the last survivors of the so-called golden age of the Hollywood musical, died of natural causes in Los Angeles on Thursday morning, her long-time managers Rene Reyes and Shane Rosamonda confirmed in a statement to The Associated Press. “As we celebrate her legacy, we offer our thanks to her friends and fans and the countless audiences she...
  • Engage! Newly Discovered Frogs that Sound Like Star Trek Sound Effects Named After Series’ Iconic Captains

    10/17/2024 11:02:57 AM PDT · by Red Badger · 16 replies
    The Debrief ^ | October 15, 2024 | Christopher Plain
    Scientists working in the remote rainforests of Madagascar say they’ve discovered seven new frog species whose calls sound similar to Star Trek sound effects, which are often heard on the iconic TV franchise’s various series. Due to these auditory similarities, the researchers have named the newly discovered amphibians after seven of the franchise’s most iconic captains. “Not only do these frogs sound like sound effects from Star Trek, but it seems also fitting that to find them, you often have to do quite a bit of trekking!” quipped senior study author, Assistant Professor Mark D. Scherz from the Natural History...
  • James Webb Space Telescope Peers 13 Billion Years into the Past and Spots an Unusual ‘Inside-Out’ Galaxy

    10/12/2024 8:25:00 PM PDT · by Red Badger · 14 replies
    The Debrief ^ | October 12, 2024 | Christopher Plain
    The galaxy NGC 1549, seen 700 million years after the Big Bang. Credit: JADES Collaboration =================================================================== Scientists using the James Webb Space Telescope have spotted an ‘inside-out’ galaxy that formed around 13 billion years ago. Like a large city, the galaxy has its densest collection of stars at its core. However, that density decreases as one moves from the city center to the galactic ‘suburbs,’ giving the galaxy its inside-out shape. Although scientists have seen similarly shaped galaxies form in the last 10 million years, the unique ability of the JWST to peer billions of years back in time has...
  • 31 Photos From September 11th That You Have Never Seen

    10/12/2024 8:00:56 PM PDT · by Red Badger · 31 replies
    Medium.com ^ | September 09, 2012 | Jeremiah Warren
    In 2001, digital cameras were a rare commodity. They were expensive, bulky and captured images that were inferior to the organic look of film. After you downloaded and edited those whopping 3.1 megapixel images, you had very few options of where you could publish them online. Remember when Shutterfly and Snapfish were a thing? Contrast that to today where you have people shooting magazine covers on cell phones and uploading over 500,000 images to Instagram, Snapchat, Twitter, and Facebook every minute. We don’t hear about national tragedies on the news anymore, we read about them in our Twitter and Facebook...
  • Unveiling Masterpieces: Explore the International Guild of Realism's Fall Salon Online Exhibition

    10/11/2024 11:55:34 AM PDT · by Beowulf9 · 24 replies
    The International Guild of Realism Fall online show. The paintings are some of the best out there. My painting, Golden Cholla, is in the show.
  • Satellite Images of Hurricane Milton Animated.....

    10/09/2024 9:56:03 AM PDT · by Red Badger · 23 replies
    NOAA ^ | October 09, 2024 | Staff
    VIDEO AT LINK........... Takes a while to load...............Too many people doing it, I suppose........
  • Dutch museum finds beer can artwork in bin

    10/08/2024 7:39:42 AM PDT · by BenLurkin · 40 replies
    A Dutch museum had to pick artwork out of the bin after a member of staff thought that the display, which consisted of two empty beer cans, was leftover rubbish. All The Good Times We Spent Together by French artist Alexandre Lavet shows two dented beer cans on the floor. They were exhibited inside the museum’s lift as if left behind by construction workers. However, a closer look "reveals that these dented cans were meticulously hand-painted with acrylics", the LAM museum in Lisse said. But a lift technician thought the art was simply the leftovers of lazy visitors and threw...