The 60 most valuable scientific artifacts of 2018

There are nearly 100 recorded auction sales of bound volumes of Birds of America for prices in excess of $100,000 and eight auction sales in excess of US$3,000,000. Other than this sale, those prices for Birds of America include $11,570,496 (£7,321,250) by Sotheby’s in December, 2010, $8,802,500 by Christie’s in March, 2000, $7,922,500 by Christie’s in January, 2012, $5,616,000 by Christie’s in December, 2005, $3,525,000 by Sotheby’s in April, 2014, $3,043,040 (£1,760,000) by Sotheby’s in June, 1990 and $3,027,500 by Christie’s in October, 1993.

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Trump Hits Back at Pelosi, Upending Her Trip to See Troops

Democrats, newly in control of the House and eager to use their power to challenge Mr. Trump, vowed that they would not be bullied into scrapping the trip altogether.

“We’re not going to allow the president of the United States to tell the Congress it can’t fulfill its oversight responsibilities, it can’t ensure that our troops have what they need whether our government is open or closed,” said Representative Adam B. Schiff of California, the chairman of the intelligence panel.

“We are a coequal branch of government,” Mr. Schiff said, suggesting that the president apparently did not understand the new reality in Washington. “It may not have been that way with the past two years when he had a Republican Congress willing to roll over anytime he asked, but that is no longer the case.”

Mr. Schiff was on the bus outside the Rayburn House Office Building near the Capitol when Mr. Trump fired off his letter, along with Representative Eliot L. Engel, Democrat of New York and the chairman of the Foreign Affairs Committee, and several other lawmakers in what made for an unusual tableau.

Instead of heading for Joint Base Andrews and boarding a military plane, the lawmakers sat stunned on their bus, unsure of what to do next, until it eventually drove slowly to the Capitol driveway — some journalists jogging or riding electric scooters to keep up — to disgorge its perplexed passengers. At one point, the House sergeant-at-arms, the

Article source: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/01/17/us/politics/trump-pelosi-letter-trip.html

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Trump government cancelling flights and Melania out of town, apparently on the expense of the state

For four weeks, parts of the government machine are still in the USA, since then, approximately 800,000 Federal employees were not paid for. It is the longest Shutdown in US history (read more here on the background). It is sometimes held also, and increasingly, on a personal level (why, read here): Given the budget line, US President, Donald Trump’s lock on Thursday his democratic adversary Nancy Pelosi in the short term, Afghanistan-troops in a military aircraft. Also, the travel of U.S. Delegation to the world economic forum in Davos has been deleted.

However, Trumps rogue fair play to the “800,000 of the great Americans, who get no salary”, does not apply to seems to be for his wife, Melania Trump. The First Lady is, apparently, traveled at state expense to Florida to spend the weekend in the family Golf club Mar-a-Lago.

Melania Trump seems to have been to Mar-a-Lago flown

According to the “Palm Beach Post” at the airport in Palm Beach, a government machine spotted. In the night from Wednesday to Thursday (local time), shortly after trump’s rejection of Pelosi, Melania broken. It was a long-planned weekend trip with son Barron, reported CNN citing an unnamed source from the White house.

the flight data to confirm the Trip. To see it: “EXEC1F”, according to Jake Sherman, “Politico”Journalist, the detection for aircraft with Melania Trump on Board and the route from Washington

Article source: https://www.ccdiscovery.com/trump-government-cancelling-flights-and-melania-out-of-town-apparently-on-the-expense-of-the-state

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In pictures: Here are the planes being built to bring back supersonic travel

Article source: https://www.cnbc.com/2019/01/18/boeing-boom-aerion-bring-back-supersonic-travel.html

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Model who claimed U.S.-Russian collusion tape held in Moscow on prostitution charges

Anton Troianovski Rosalind S. Helderman January 17 at 3:28 PM

A model from Belarus who claimed to have recordings shedding light on the Trump campaign’s ties to Russia was detained at a Moscow airport Thursday on prostitution allegations, the police said.

The model, Anastasia Vashukevich, had been deported from Thailand earlier in the day after spending nine months in prison on charges of conspiracy and soliciting prostitution.

She was booked to fly to Minsk, Belarus, but was detained along with three others traveling with her as she changed planes at Moscow’s Sheremetyevo Inter­national Airport, according to her husband and another person traveling with her.

No evidence has emerged of the tape that Vashukevich claimed showed contacts between Trump campaign officials and Russians. Her arrest in Moscow was unexpected and blocked her from possibly talking to dozens of journalists waiting for her in the airport’s arrivals zone.

Gregory Kogan, a close friend of Vashukevich, asserted that Russian and Belarusan diplomats in Thailand had pledged the group would be safe if they left for Russia or flew via Moscow.

The four now face charges of inducement into prostitution, said a police statement quoted by the Interfax

Article source: https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/europe/model-who-claimed-us-russian-collusion-tape-arrested-in-moscow-on-prostitution-charges/2019/01/17/97a65db2-1a66-11e9-b8e6-567190c2fd08_story.html

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Snow sculptor gains national attention for snow eagle

GREENFIELD — Rick Horton feels the tingle of inspiration as the first flakes of snow drift to the ground.

The Greenfield resident, whose 8-foot-tall snow sculpture of an eagle in his front yard on South State Street has garnered national attention, appearing on the likes of “Good Morning America” and the NBC “Nightly News,” has since 1993 made a tradition of creating art with winter’s first big snow.

That first year, he was building a regular snowman with his daughter, and got the idea to “do something funny.” He sculpted a large Homer Simpson statue and spray-painted it for extra impact.

People didn’t forget it. All year long, passers-by and acquaintances commented on how they had enjoyed the statue of the patriarch of animated TV comedy, “The Simpsons.”

“It’s just built up from there,” Horton said. He’s sculpted rattlesnakes; Minions; a cat in the image of his 18-year-old Maine Coon, Gary; and other creations. But nothing has received quite the attention his eagle did this week.

He was inspired this year by the mated pair of bald eagles living on Greenfield’s northeast side, he said. He’s a fan of watching for the endangered birds, and seeing them soar overhead is a thrill that hasn’t lost its novelty, he said.

“It’s amazing seeing them right here in Indiana,” he said.

A Facebook group created to keep admirers informed about the eagles, Greenfield Eagle Watch, shared Horton’s art to its

Article source: http://www.greenfieldreporter.com/2019/01/18/snow_sculptor_gains_national_attention_for_snow_eagle/

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Cindy Sherman: The original selfie queen

You’re never too old for a selfie — or for Instagram.

At least, not if you’re Cindy Sherman, the American photographer known for her unusual self-portraiture. Although she told W Magazine in 2017 that she “actually hates the idea of selfies,” the artist, who turns 65 on January 19, appears to have taken to the platform known for self-staging like a fish to the water.

After an initial reluctance to engage with social media — telling the New York Times Magazine in 2016 that she found it “so vulgar” — in late 2016 Sherman opened a public profile on Instagram, a platform most popular with teenagers, fashionistas and celebrities.

The result is a grid that’s entirely on-brand. Scroll down and you’ll see vibrant landscape images alongside a series featuring her backyard chickens and snaps of clouds taken from an airplane window. Interspersed throughout these series are images of the artist herself: Cindy Sherman front and center.

Entirely different from the traditional Instagram selfie, the photographs that Sherman posts of herself are distorted using several face-tuning apps; in one series of three images, the artist is seen posing in a red silk kimono but the backgrounds are switched in each photograph. Her lips are larger than life, painted a brilliant pink in one shot; in another, the artist’s trademark blonde hairdo has been swapped for a tightly-curled brown wig. These aren’t your traditional costume and makeup swaps; Sherman uses modern technology to

Article source: https://www.dw.com/en/cindy-sherman-the-original-selfie-queen/a-47132684

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