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Why this mysterious Klimt painting sold for 236 million dollars?

Hidden for decades from public view, the artist's Portrait of Elisabeth Lederer has now sold at auction for a record sum. Why is it...

ON THIS DAY: The death of Edgar Allan Poe (1849)

The master of the macabre, Edgar Allan Poe, one of America’s most influential writers and poets, died on this day in 1849 in Baltimore,...

ON THIS DAY: Mozart’s The Magic Flute premieres in Vienna (1791)

On 30 September 1791, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart’s opera Die Zauberflöte (The Magic Flute) was first performed at the Theater auf der Wieden in Vienna....

ON THIS DAY: Goethe (1749) and Tolstoy (1828) are born

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749–1832) Born on 28 August 1749 in Frankfurt am Main, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe was one of Germany’s greatest literary figures...

Director Francis Ford Coppola discharged from Rome hospital

Oscar-winning director Francis Ford Coppola has been discharged from the hospital in Rome where he was admitted two days ago, and is "feeling good",...

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International conference on the Strait of Hormuz in Paris

A major international conference on Strait of Hormuz security...

ON THIS DAY: Dimitris Mitropanos died (2012)

On this day, 17 April 2012, Greece lost one...

20% drop in lamb and goat demand over Easter

Meat demand declined by 20% during the Easter period...
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