The largest Martian meteorite ever sold fetched a record-breaking $5.3 million at an auction in the United States, according to a statement published by Sotheby’s on Wednesday. Weighing 24.67 kilograms, the rock called Northwest Africa 16788 (NWA 16788) is a fragment that broke off the surface of Mars after an …
Read More »‘Corona Lisa’ goes on auction
Artist and trainee nurse Chloe Slevin has put her third Covid-19-inspired work up for auction, telling Sky News that the money raised would go to LauraLynn, the only children’s hospice in the Republic of Ireland. The 21-year-old artist, also a third-year nursing student at University College Dublin, said she drew …
Read More »One of the most expensive properties for sale in ‘auction of the century’
Rome’s Casino di Villa Boncompagni Ludovisi, also known as Villa Aurora, home to the world’s only ceiling mural painted by Caravaggio, goes under the hammer on Tuesday in the “auction of the century.” The 2,800-square-meter (30,000 square feet) property located near Via Veneto is one of the most expensive homes …
Read More »Former Trump ‘fixer’ to auction prison badge as NFT
Released from custody last week after serving nearly three years over campaign finance violations and fraud charges, the disbarred attorney is already looking to parlay his sentence into profit. On Wednesday, Cohen launched an auction and “exhibition” for his “prison badge,” as well as a page from his memoir and …
Read More »Cristiano Ronaldo trading card expected to sell for $1MN at auction – with bidders able to pay for digital token in cryptocurrency
Auction experts Bonhams said that they will put the one-of-a-kind version of the Portugal captain’s card up for sale at their auction between November 1 and 11, with a global fantasy football company set to mint the digital token. The “crypto craze” could form part of the deal in another representation of the …
Read More »Christie’s to auction ‘white male for sale’ NFT touted as commentary on capitlism, slavery & white supremacy
“White Male for Sale” – a short video of a white man standing on an auction block in New York City – was created by 56-year-old American artist Dead Scott and will be auctioned by Christie’s and the Cristin Tierney Gallery on October 1. In an Instagram post advertising the …
Read More »Texas students punished for holding mock ‘SLAVE AUCTION’ of black classmates
In screenshots of a Snapchat message group, which was titled “N*gger Auction,” the Aledo Independent School District (ISD) students could be seen offering various amounts of money for black peers. One student offered “100 bucks” for a classmate, while another student offered $1 for a boy called Chris, claiming he …
Read More »Auction corruption: the bad “List of strategic companies”
The very concept of “systemically important”, which receives assistance from the Russian authorities, is not only corrupt and ineffective, it is completely divorced from reality A very accurate assessment list of companies that the Russian authorities are going to help in the first place, gave the publicist Mikhail Makogon: “The …
Read More »In 2020, Ukraine will auction licenses for frequencies 5G
This was during a meeting with journalists said the Minister of infrastructure. The national Commission of regulation of communications and Informatization in 2020 will auction licenses for frequencies 5G. This was during a meeting with journalists said the Minister of infrastructure Vladimir Omelian. “Today we had a meeting with the …
Read More »Pickup a Bentley sold at auction
Under the bonnet of the Bentley S1 is set 4.9-liter inline six-cylinder engine. Auction house Silverstone to auction pickup Bentley. Car converted from a sedan Australian body shops by count of Stradbroke Keith Rosa. The preliminary cost of the lot – 25-30 thousand pounds. The truck started life as a …
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