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56. Answer to #3.

Sat Feb 8, 2014, 12:56 PM

Feb 2014

This is a funny one. It is an18th century oil painting damaged by flying cork from spumante bottle during a party held in council offices in Milan. The painting was unnamed in the article. The man next to the painting is the guy who uncorked the spumante. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/italy/10593319/Italian-18th-century-oil-painting-damaged-by-cork-from-fizzy-wine-bottle.html

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