Word: gubbio
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...abruptly 65 million years ago, they left an enduring mystery-and created a scientific parlor game. Hypotheses abound to explain the extinction. Brains too small in bodies too large? Emerging mammals feasting on dinosaur eggs? Now comes evidence for another possibility. Geologist Walter Alvarez, probing an ocean canyon near Gubbio, Italy, discovered an abrupt increase in iridium in a limestone layer dating back to the dinosaurs' demise. Probable cause: some mysterious, still unfathomable extraterrestrial event...
...statue was dragged off a sandy seabed in the nets of surprised fishermen from the Italian port of Fano in 1963. A wily antique dealer and his two cousins from the nearby town of Gubbio bought it for $5,500, then kept it in a local priest's house, as they tried to peddle it secretly to European art dealers for $200,000. A Roman antique dealer tipped Italian officials off to the statue's existence. But when police raided the priest's house in 1964, the bronze was gone. In a lengthy court fight, the priest...
News of the purchase renewed Italian ire at the loss of yet another art masterpiece to the U.S. Sergio Matteini Chiari, a magistrate in Gubbio, filed a charge of clandestine export of an artwork against "unknown persons." Until he can fill in the names, however, the action has little force. Higher Italian officials are considering more effective moves, including complaints to Washington...