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a museum employee in 1911. It was then put under glass after a Bolivian man threw a rock at it in December 1956.
In 2009, a Russian woman angry at not being able to get French citizenship threw an empty teacup at the painting, which slightly scratched the case. All through it all, the mysterious woman behind the glass has maintained her enigmatic smirk. She’s probably thinking, “Who are all these crazy people?”
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Art Attack The Mona Lisa barely cracked a smile this week when a visitor to the Louvre in Paris smashed cake across her face.
A man wearing a wig and lipstick arrived in a wheelchair to the art gallery on Sunday and began throwing roses at the paintings. Disguised as an old lady, he then jumped out of the wheelchair and attempted to smash the glass protecting Leonardo da Vinci’s most famous piece of work. Taking a piece of cake from his bag, he then smeared it across the surface of the Mona Lisa’s protective covering.
Museum officials eventually tackled the man and brought him out of the museum. As he was being led away by security, the man said, “Think of the Earth, people are destroying the Earth. Think about it. Artists tell you: think of the Earth. That’s why I did this.” This is not the first time the Mona Lisa was under attack. The 16th century Renaissance masterpiece was stolen by
It’s called “The Intrepid” and it’s not for the faint of heart – or the faint of wallet. The world’s largest bottle of whiskey recently sold for around $1.4 million. The bottle, standing 5 feet 11 inches, was given the Guinness World Record in September 2021. It contains 82.16 U.S. gallons, or 311 liters. That’s the equivalent of 444 standard bottles – enough for 5,287 whiskey sours made with 2 ounces of whiskey each. The liquor is a 1989 Macallan single malt that spent 32 years maturing in oak casks at Macallan’s Scotland distillery before being bottled in 2021. It is pale gold and has a sweet taste with notes of apple. The Intrepid project was created as a collaboration between Fah Mai, a Thailand-based investment company, and Rosewin Holdings, a London-based firm, which invest in whiskey and other spirits. The project’s founder, Daniel Monk,
