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The bronze rat head was taken from the Imperial Summer Palace in Beijing in 1868

A hare bronze which, with the rat figure, was used as a fountain head. They are expected to fetch 10 million euros each in the Paris sale

1 posted on 02/25/2009 12:29:38 PM PST by JoeProBono
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To: JoeProBono
Any artwork in China stolen from Tibet...?
2 posted on 02/25/2009 12:45:00 PM PST by 2banana (My common ground with terrorists - they want to die for islam and we want to kill them)
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To: JoeProBono

“...Pierre Berge, Yves Saint Laurent’s former business partner and companion, told the media in Paris...”

Yes, the offer makes perfect sense because the Chinese Communists are always in the habit of negotiating ridiculous blackmail on their national sovereignty with Western homosexuals.

(sarc)


3 posted on 02/25/2009 12:45:27 PM PST by PGR88
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To: pandoraou812; TigerLikesRooster; indcons; Virginia Ridgerunner; Army Air Corps
A little dark humor surfaces on the China/Tibet front.

French fairy tries to blackmail Beijing.

7 posted on 02/25/2009 2:01:30 PM PST by TigersEye (This is the age of the death of reason.)
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