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List of most expensive paintings in the world
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This is a list of most expensive paintings in the world (currently). The paintings are very expensive when changing hands always sold by auction valuable items such as Sotheby's or Christie's.
Most of the paintings in the world's most famous museum is owned by, which is very rare that they sell back. In the event of sale by the museum, normally sky-high prices.
For example the Mona Lisa would be sold, the selling price will be far above the price of the paintings on the following list.
The Guinness Book of Records put the Mona Lisa with the highest insurance value for a painting throughout history. Insurance value is set at about U.S. $ 100 million on December 14, 1962, before exhibiting the picture was taken around the USA for several months.
If inflation taken into account, this price will rise above U.S. $ 670 million (6.7 Trillion Rupiah) in 2006.
Louvre Museum in Paris, where the Mona Lisa was now prefer to spend a lot of money for paintings that storage security is this extraordinary, rather than sell it.

List of highest price of the painting auction results :

1. "Garçon à la pipe" by Pablo Picasso. Sold for U.S. $ 104.1 million on May 4, 2004 at Sotheby's, New York (current value: U.S. $ 106,910,700.00)

2. "Portrait of Dr. Gachet " by Vincent van Gogh. Sold for U.S. $ 82.5 million on May 15, 1990 at Christie's, New York (current value: U.S. $ 116,793,226.33)

3. "Bal au Moulin de la Galette, Montmartre" by Pierre-Auguste Renoir. Sold for U.S. $ 78 million on May 17, 1990 at Sotheby's, New York (current value: U.S. $ 110,422,686.71)
4. "Irises" by Vincent van Gogh. Sold for U.S. $ 49 million on November 11, 1987 at Sotheby's, New York (current value: U.S. $ 78,402,796.71)

5. "Massacre of the Innocents" by Peter Paul Rubens. UK Sold for £ 49.5 million (U.S. $ 76.7 million) on July 10, 2002 at Sotheby's, London (The present value: U.S. $ 77,927,200.00)

6. "Les Noces de Pierrette" by Pablo Picasso. Sold for U.S. $ 49 million on November 30, 1989 (present value: U.S. $ 72,697,766.77)

7. "Portrait de l'artiste sans barbe" by Vincent van Gogh. Sold for U.S. $ 65 million on November 19, 1998 at Christie's, New York (current value: $ 71,691,040.02)

8. "Rideau, Cruchon et Compotier" by Paul Cézanne. Sold for U.S. $ 60.5 million on May 10, 1999 at Sotheby's, New York (later resold at a loss)

9. "Femme aux Bras Croisés" by Pablo Picasso. Sold for U.S. $ 50 million on 8 November 2000 at Christie's, New York (current value: U.S. $ 52,851,507.20)
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Photo supergirl Lucy Pinder in Sexy Posing

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photo Lucy Pinder in Sexy Posing with supergirl mode.

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Best Photo : insect like creature outer space planet

Photo insects is remarkable! Taken by an amateur photographer named Miroslaw Swietek around the forest next to his house. Taken at night while they were sleeping. Fantastic! Looks at photographic images of this insect like creature outer space planet that is filled with crystals. Amazing.
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Sword of Damascus the sharper in the world

When the Crusades, European armies were surprised by the sword proprietary by Arab and Persian armies.
The sword they easily penetrate the armor crusader forces, was even able to split the shield.
This is the Sword of Damascus, made of steel under cultivation with a special technique that can have a dead-very strong and sharp.
Sword-making technique is so secret that only a few families in Damascus smiths are mastered, this is also why the techniques of making Damascus steel eventually become extinct.
Until now the technology the most sophisticated metallurgy was not able to make a sword sharper reply from Damascus Sword.
Sword of Damascus is the most sharp swords in the world, more sharply than the Japanese Katana and Kris Indonesia.
In addition to strong, Damascus steel is also very flexible so perfect to be betul2 sword or knife.
This sword can cut silk dropped upon it, is also capable of splitting other sword or a stone with no damage at all.
A microscopic study found that it actually has pedang2 such dipermukaannya glass layer.
You could say Muslim scholars in the Middle East has reached nano technology since a thousand years ago.
Some experts claim the modern metallurgy managed to make steel is very similar reply Damascus steel, but still have not managed to emulate 100%.
Sword-making techniques, including one of Damascus Islamic knowledge lost.
Swords, spears and knives left Damascus reply now scattered in various Museums around the world.
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where did the cop will do?? to the byker..

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THE Predators Snakes Eat Students at Tembung Rivers Still Hiding

Big phyton snake devouring PGRI junior high student, M Zakaria (13) while bathing in the river Tembung, Percut Sei Tuan, Deli Serdang, North Sumatra is estimated to still hiding in the sewage water tunnel.
Until Monday morning (22 / 3) location of the death of M Zakaria VIII Market Village residents Sei Rattan, Sub Percut Sei Tuan, still filled with people who come from various regions, so the police must secure location.
Nasution Nasution (60) one citizen who has nearly 50 years living in Tembung, Deli Serdang, North Sumatra, said that this was the first time to know a snake phyton seven meters long preyed on the local junior high school student's.
"This bizarre incident was a fairly rare event, and rarely happens in my lifetime who lived not far from the river how it Tembung," Nasution said in a discussion on Tembung, Monday.
Tembung River, Thursday evening (18 / 3) stir residents in the area after a large python and seven meters long, more junior high students who preyed on the shower-bath with three friends who had come home from school.
Python snake, twisting ferociously victim was trying to escape from the stream.
In addition, according to Nasution, a snake in a state of starvation was also slammed bantingkan victims in the river, and eventually limp.
Meanwhile, the three co-victims who made it out of the river trying to get help to residents who lived some distance from the scene.

Furthermore, people with bamboo spears, spear heads and body parts of the snake to let go of his victim.

But ultimately, the work done that people are not in vain, because at that moment the snake off the victim who was in a state battered and lifeless again.
Victims who are released from the mouth of a snake in a state mengganas, according to Nasution, nearly swallowing the junior high school student.
Then the snake, disappearing and dive into the tunnel hiding place and until now never comes out.
Furthermore, he explained, people who know the snake's prey junior high students, also did not want to stay silent, they asked the help of some snake handlers to catch the snake in the Tembung River.
Then, Friday, (19 / 3) at around 19:30 pm, the snake charmer who worked extra hard to help some people finally succeeded in trapping the large size of the snake from his hiding place in the stream.
Snakes are successfully snared with ropes which had already been prepared, having first given feedback in the form of a chicken.
Furthermore, the captured snake was put into the burlap and taken to the police office Percut Sei Tuan for safekeeping.
However, according to the snake charmer who caught the snake. Snake snared it, not the snake that preys on junior high student, but the other snakes that live in Tembung River.
According to the trainer, there are two more big snake living in Tembung River, one of them snakes that prey on junior high students.

Next Nasution said the event was a snake that preys on the junior high school students, including really strange events in this area, because every day it made Tembung River residents as a place to bathe and wash clothes.
However, residents have never seen a snake or other animal to be disturbed in the stream.
"I was really surprised to know there are snakes that prey on junior high school student to death. This is a remarkable event in my lifetime who have tens of years lived in Tembung," he said.
Moreover, according to him, Tembung River's location, to within approximately 200 meters from his house.
"Sometimes I am too often bathe in the Tembung river, but had never seen a snake pun.Kejadian is a very valuable experience for me, the future no more victims prey to a snake," Nasution said.

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Animal PIC Gallery : Animal in Love

great atmosphere for a relation ship.

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Who are the Barbarians? - Tzvetan Todorov

When I was at college I learned from Tzvetan Todorov some important aspects of the fantastic reading his book: "The Fantastic: A Structural Approach to a Literary Genre".

By that time two of my favorites writers, Julio Cortázar and Jorge Luis Borges, were classified as fantastic and Gabriel Garcia Marques was translated to many languages.

But it is not about his work as literary theorist that I want to share with you. It is about his work as a deeply concerned man that is writing books to try to make some sense in the way the world is being conducted.
He has published "Fear of the Barbarians: beyond the clash of civilizations" that will be released in English next month. These are some of the subjects he approaches:

"But who are these barbarians? Tzvetan Todorov questions Claude Levi-Strauss’ definition of the barbarian as “the man who believes in barbarism” and suggests: “It is someone who believes that a population or an individual is not fully human and therefore merits treatment that he would resolutely refuse to apply to himself.” In his recent The Fear of Barbarians (10), Todorov develops an argument he presented in earlier works such as On Human Diversity (a thought-provoking book that deserves to be far more widely read). “The fear of barbarians,” he writes now, “is what is in danger of turning us into barbarians. And the evil that we do will far exceed what we initially fear.”
Only the individual who fully recognizes the humanity of others can be called civilized." (emphasis mine)

Keep reading.

"These conceptual tools enable him to shed fresh light on the current struggle against terrorism and the tensions between communities within Western countries. He invites us to overcome our fears - for fear is a dangerous motive and risks producing an evil that is worse than the evil we initially feared.
Richly illustrated with examples ranging from Guantanamo and Abu Ghraib to the murder of Theo Van Gogh and the Danish cartoons, this powerful plea for civilized values will be essential reading for anyone concerned with the key challenges facing the world today." (emphasis mine)

And this is a translation from a video at Youtube:

"... culturally a nation is never something perfectly homogeneous. It's made by women and men, young and old people, rich and poor, people of profiles totally differents.
You and me during a day we change languages three or four times. We speak differently to our neighbors, to children's at schools, in front of our students, in the television... without any problem. We have to stop living in the illusion that culture have to be the same for everybody. (emphasis mine)


In reality there is no religious war. Wars have always political reasons. Combats for power, for wealth, demographic reasons, because of the country's resource, but religion is only the mask that we give to these combats because it mobilizes deep strengths of each and everybody."

I did the translation from French of these two excerpts. He speaks English and I don't understand why there is not a single video in English.

"It's through fear that the most unacceptable actions are carried out"

Tzvetan Todorov

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Statue : is he sleep or drunk ?

what is the man doing there ??

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Snake eater's death body is No Myth

In indonesia. Residents of West Longitude, District Batumarmar, Pamekasan, Madura, East Java, to catch a cobra measuring about four meters long, are known to eat the corpse.
Large snake with a diameter of 40 cm meters citizens caught in the village cemetery, when the snake was out of the hole of a collapsed grave.
Large cobra is believed to be the predator's body because the village cemetery west longitude many graves are crumbling and the body missing.

Unlike the cobra snakes in general, who was arrested cobra Village residents West Longitude, District Batumarmar, Pamekasan, it was all black.
Some residents to understand the myth of the existence of these bodies snake predators. The reason is, since the snake four feet long with a diameter of 40 cm it appeared, had never rained on the village of West Longitude.

"At first I wanted to give the snake to Animal Husbandry Department to dimuseumkan at the zoo, but it prohibits citizens on the grounds that as long as the snake dreams are not removed, the Village West Longitude will not rain," explained Rajaie.
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paint review : The Death of Socrates - David 1787

the famous paint
The Death of Socrates, Jacques-Louis David, 1787/The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

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The story of the Blue-eyed Frog Research

the frog with blue eye.
In the picture looks blue-eyed frog. Museum researchers zoologicum Bogoriense (mLB), Biology Research Center, LIPI was sure, this type had never known before.
Amir had been studying the topic of master frogs taxonomic genus Leptobrachium. Months to examine and assess it Leptobrachium stored specimen museums in Malaysia, in Japan, and certainly in Indonesia (mLB). Daily activities to measure and compare in detail all the morphological characters of all these specimens.
"One specimen that I check has a unique character, and unlike other Leptobrachium of Sumatra, which hasseltii L., L. L. nigrops and hendriksoni, which has no color pattern in the upper body and around the posterior thigh," wrote Amir in Kompas.com electronic mail.
But then he was still curious as they are not seeing eye of the frog. Understandably eye color of these specimens is unknown, because the color will fade in the eyes that have been preserved specimens. So when he handed a photograph showing her blue eyes on the frog iris, his heart was thrilled.
"Usually the genus iris color is black Leptobrachium (for all the species of Borneo), or half a light colored top, can be yellow / orange (hendricksoni L, L. smithi) or white / light blue (all species in China and Indochina). Lha ... this new type has the color blue iris in both eyes throughout sliced up or down, "said Amir who is currently in Japan to take the master's findings related to the frog.
Colors in the genus iris Leptobrachium is an important character to distinguish species. At least two new species found recently (in 2004 and 2006), from Cambodia and Laos are also based on the difference in iris color. Therefore Leptobrachium color of the iris Sepunti Way area is different from the types that have terdeskripsi he believed to be a new species.
The frog was first encountered by Adiinggar Ul-Hasanah and Wempi Endarwin from Wildlife Conservation Society team in 2004. At that time they only know genus. Amir's research since 2008 to uncover this kind of possibility that this frog is a kind previously unknown.
Amir's interest then took him to Sumatra to seek a living example of the frog's eyes are blue. He left in February 2009, assisted by two young herpetologiawan Sasi Kirono and Dwi Susanto, WCS team, Firdaus and Marji, and the ranger at the resort Kubu Perahu TNBBS (Taman Bukit Barisan Selatan National Park). The team that conducted a brief survey on Sepunti Way line, find two frogs. Amir then examine these frogs including describing it further.
According to the taxonomic studies carried out with his mentor Professor Amir Masafumi Matsui, by comparing these frogs with other types (in the genus Leptobrachium) from Thailand, Malaysia and several other areas in Indonesia (Sumatra, Belitung, Borneo and Java), this frog is a new type.
He also wrote a thesis about the frog and then given the name Leptobrachium waysepuntiense - refers to a small river near the location of the discovery of this type Sepunti River Way, the village of Kubu Perahu, Taman Bukit Barisan Selatan National Park. According to actual Leptobrachium genus widely distributed from China, Indochina to Sundaland (the Malay Peninsula, Borneo, Sumatra, Java) and Philippine (Southern). Now there are approximately 21 species that have been terdiskripsi. In Indonesia itself has no type 5, so that with the discovery of this new type into 6 types.
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don't disturb Pic Logo

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River in Under sea picture

if you are a diver, then you should visit the cenote Angelita, Mexico. There is a cave. If you dive to depths of 30 meters, the water is fresh water (fresh), but if you dive to depths of more than 60 meters, the water turns salty water, then you can see a "river" at the bottom, complete with trees and foliage leaves. But of course, the river was not unusual, it is a layer of hydrogen sulfide, but it looks like a river ... Wow.


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Failure?

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