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Salvator Mundi by Italian artist Leonardo da Vinci (c. 1500). This is a list of the highest known prices paid for paintings.The record is approximately US$450.3 million (which includes commission), paid for Leonardo da Vinci's Salvator Mundi (c. 1500).
The suffix-gate derives from the Watergate scandal in the United States in the early 1970s, which resulted in the resignation of US President Richard Nixon. [2] The scandal was named after the Watergate complex in Washington, D.C., where the burglary giving rise to the scandal took place; the complex itself was named after the "Water Gate" area where symphony orchestra concerts were staged on ...
Bing News (previously Live Search News) [70] is a news aggregator powered by artificial intelligence. [ 71 ] In August 2015 Microsoft announced that Bing News for mobile devices added algorithmic-deduced "smart labels" that essentially act as topic tags, allowing users to click through and explore possible relationships between different news ...
Matt Hobden (1993–2016) David Bowie (1947–2016) in 2002 Alan Rickman (1946–2016), acclaimed stage and screen actor, in 2011 Black (1962–2016) Sir Terry Wogan (1938–2016) at his investiture in 2005. 1 January – Mark B, 45, hip-hop record producer. 2 January Matt Hobden, 22, cricketer . Thomas Johnstone McWiggan, 97, aviation engineer.
Three of the four highest-grossing films, including Avatar at the top, were written and directed by James Cameron.. With a worldwide box-office gross of over $2.9 billion, Avatar is proclaimed to be the "highest-grossing" film, but such claims usually refer to theatrical revenues only and do not take into account home video and television income, which can form a significant portion of a film ...
The Summit supercomputer was as of November 2018 the fastest supercomputer in the world. [56] With a measured power efficiency of 14.668 GFlops/watt it is also the third most energy efficient in the world. [57] Throughout the decades, the management of heat density has remained a key issue for most centralized supercomputers.
In 1969 Seattle, law student Ted Bundy meets Liz Kendall, a young secretary and divorced mother. The two begin dating, and Ted helps Liz raise her young daughter, Molly. By 1974, news reports announce the recent murders of multiple young women, including two who disappeared in broad daylight at Lake Sammamish; a man resembling Ted was seen by several people asking women to help him load a ...
This is a list of calendars.Included are historical calendars as well as proposed ones. Historical calendars are often grouped into larger categories by cultural sphere or historical period; thus O'Neil (1976) distinguishes the groupings Egyptian calendars (Ancient Egypt), Babylonian calendars (Ancient Mesopotamia), Indian calendars (Hindu and Buddhist traditions of the Indian subcontinent ...