Word: trove
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...That Japanese buddha now reigns over a newly renovated Musèe Cernuschi. After nearly a century of refining and adding to Cernuschi's acquisitions, plus a three-year, $9 million refurbishment, the museum has reopened as one of Europe's premier collections of Chinese art-a coherent, chronological trove of works from the Neolithic period to the 13th century...
...after nearly 20 years, the Philippine government wants to cash in on that trove, saying it was paid for with public funds. It has invited three different auction houses?Christie's, Sotheby's and Bonhams?to examine 760 pieces in the collection. Representatives of Christie's flew in last week to inspect three crates of gems. Marcos, who claims the jewels are her private property and that some are heirlooms, is having none of it. The former First Lady filed a 10-page petition before a Manila court last week asking for a restraining order to prevent an auction from...
...Intelligence Service, General Mohammed Abdullah al-Shahwani, has publicly accused Iranian-backed cells of hunting down and killing his officers. In October he blamed agents in Iran's Baghdad embassy of coordinating assassinations of up to 18 of his people, claiming that raids on three safe houses uncovered a trove of documents linking the agents to funds funneled to the Badr Corps for the purposes of "physical liquidation...
...take place as planned, it will be another 15 months before the spacecraft settles into its low, circular orbit around Mars. After that, it will have a full two years to conduct its surveillance work - a long life for a robot ship, and one that should return a rich trove of science...
...excluding color Sunday strips, the period when "Gasoline Alley" had just started to appear as a four panel strip after beginning in 1919 as a series of single gag panels. Gorgeously designed and printed on heavy, off-white paper Walt and Skeezix also comes with a rich trove of photos and archival background material, making this weighty brick of a book a revelation. "Gasoline Alley" clearly belongs in the cannon as a deeply American masterwork of cartooning...