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A UFO Is Still a UFO: From Antiquity to Today
By Lee Speigel - AOL NewsCircular ships, vertical aerial cylinders, spheres, disks, wheels in the sky, hat-shaped things, flying pillars or columns and triangular-shaped objects. At first glance, you might think those are common, almost daily, descriptions of UFOs reported by eyewitnesses. Well, yes ... sort of. Those are the actual words, found in ancient texts, that characterize unidentified flying objects, spanning biblical accounts through the 1800s. And that's exactly what two leading researchers have done: trace the huge numbers of UFOs reported that couldn't possibly be attributed to or misinterpreted as ...
Miniature Sistine Chapel Less Than 1/30th Size of Famous Cathedral
By Ben Muessig - AOL NewsWho says a masterpiece has to be massive? French retiree Jean Massa spent 5,000 hours painstakingly re-creating a miniature version of the famed interior of the Sistine Chapel, shrinking the legendary Vatican City site to a size of just 4 feet 9 inches by 2 feet 4 inches. It took Michelangelo four years to paint the Sistine Chapel ceiling, and even though Massa was working on a much smaller scale, the 80-year-old former dental technician needed just as long to complete his Sistine Chapel masterpiece, according to OddityCentral.com. ...
'Lost Michelangelo' Painting Ended Up Behind Couch
By Mara Gay - AOL News
(Oct. 13) -- It may have been sought after for years by some of Europe's most powerful cardinals, but for the past eight decades, the possibly priceless painting of the Virgin Mary hung above the fireplace -- and later sat behind the couch -- of a middle-class family home in New York state. Art historians say "The Mike," as the family dubbed it, may actually be the work of Italian master Michelangelo, a long-lost piece of art worth tens, maybe even hundreds of millions of dollars. For years, the Kober family was convinced the painting was a Michelangelo. Now, one of them says he finally has ...
Was Michelangelo Sending a Sacrilegious Message?
By Katie Drummond - AOL News(May 28) -- It's a secret that's been hiding in open view of historians, art buffs and worshippers for over five centuries, and one that raises new questions about the religious ideology of an iconic artist. Michelangelo, renowned for his remarkably accurate depictions of the human form, was an accomplished anatomist who hid detailed figures within some of his most well-known frescoes. That's according to comprehensive new research published in this month's issue of Neurosurgery. But the artist destroyed most of his anatomical renderings, other than several that he concealed in a ...
Farmers Market Frenzy Is My Kind of Crazy
By Domenica Marchetti - Politics DailyA lot of people look forward to their weekly trip to the farmers market the way most kids look forward to the last day of school. The words joy, anticipation, and abandon come to mind.For me, the word dread also applies. I know, it sounds crazy, especially for someone who cooks and writes about food for a living. But crazy is just what I'm talking about, because from the minute I step out of my car and into the cluster of stalls that sets up every Tuesday in the parking lot of my local library, I risk losing my sanity. Not to mention my children's college savings. ...
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