History in the News

The Nobel Prize for Economics was awarded to three academics, one of them Joel Mokyr, well known to Irish historians for some very interesting work in the Famine. Their Nobel Prize work was on the role of innovation in generating economic expansion.

<<Having everything in one place is risky. Dispersal might be better to frustrate theft.>>

@Ozymandius2011 The very opposite IMO. It will be a big set-back for the planned decentralisation; France has been trying to remove mass tourism away from Paris and into les Provinces to better manage numbers, spreading them out a bit to improve economics and make numbers more manageable. The Mona Lisa now has its own salon and a separate entrance. The Pompidou, currently under refurb, has sent its 'artworks' to locations such as the Centre Pompidou-Metz, the Grand Palais in Paris, and temporary exhibitions in other cities like Shanghai, Amsterdam, and Lille. Additionally, the Centre Pompidou is establishing a new exhibition and research center in Massy, which will open in the late 2020s.

According to M. le Ministre, <<It was “manifestly a team that had done scouting”, he said, adding that the panes were cut “with a disc cutter”.>>

Duh! Who would do a heist like that without scoping the joint and planning? Lidl had disc-cutters on the centre aisle last week!

I'm curious, why not?

2 of those who stole some of the French Crown jewels have been apprehended, but the jewels have not been recovered. They did drop Empress Eugenies' tiara which was recovered in a broken condition. Still missing are: An emerald-and-diamond necklace and pair of emerald earrings from a set given by Napoleon I to his second wife Empress Marie‑Louise;a tiara, necklace and one earring from the sapphire set formerly belonging to Queen Marie‑Amélie (wife of King Louis Philippe) and Queen Hortense (wife of King Jerome Bonaparte of Holland, and mother of Napoleon III). In all about 4-9 pieces were stolen. Increasingly looks like it was an inside job, which was also the case with the theft from the British museum some months ago.

Academic wins payout for portrayal in film about the discovery of the body of Richard III

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cdegzx9w16ro

Zut alors, même la Beeb. Quelle bêtise, le PDG doit être viré! (Heureusement, ce n’est pas Trump, sinon un procès de milliards s’ensuivrait!!)

Hall where Western Roman Emperor Valentinian I probably died during meeting with envoys of the Germanic Quadi tribe found in Hungary. Ammianus Marcellinus says he died during an angry exchange with the envoys, which caused a blood vessel in his brain to burst.