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...ship with big guns: Ol’ Glory and the rising red sun. Oh, I get it! It’s about World War II! My guess is that the big noise from those big guns sounds a lot like thunder, so you could perhaps call the Pacific Ocean the “sea of thunder.” Bob Woodward has a one-line review of it on the back, so you know it’s the real deal...
...jillionaires like Ryoei Saito chased Van Goghs to the stratosphere. (Saito paid $82.5 million for Portrait of Dr. Gachet.) Dotcom entrepreneurs with Internet funny money bought Impressionists and Pop Art. Today a new generation of hedge-fund billionaires and Chinese and Russian kleptocrats is part of an ocean of capital flowing into galleries and auction houses. "There seem to be no limits to what people will pay, and in every kind of art," says art-tax specialist Ralph Lerner, whose clients include some of the country's biggest collectors...
Speakers introduced the theory that the ocean was a conducive environment for the creation of life, an environment replete with hot rocks and hydrothermal vents...
...Hundred Horizons: The Indian Ocean in the Age of Global Empire,” Bose’s latest work, is an intriguing read. He chooses not to focus on the European colonialists as central players in the realm of South Asia, but rather as one of the many players in a complex community...
Bose’s anecdotal examples of larger trends are particularly fascinating. For example, he shows the richness of Indian Ocean commerce by following non-European merchants and traders as they exchange pearls and cloves. A later chapter centers on the travels of poet Rabindranath Tagore to exhibit the abundance of cultural exchange and interconnectivity found in the Indian Ocean...