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10 priceless things accidentally destroyed
Breaking - not stroitNekotorye things are truly unique, and even if they are lost, it is forever. The list below lists the 10 things which were destroyed because of someone's stupidity, clumsiness, stubbornness, or simply due to unforeseen circumstances.
1. Wood of George Harrison ... killed the beetles! 73,364,740
Perhaps this message even gets you in the news. It is well known that George Harrison was a member of one of the greatest teams in history: The Beatles (the name comes from the word «beetles» - «bugs," but it deliberately replaced the letter «e» at «a», that the root of the word is read as «beat» - «rhythm»).
This man was more than a musician. He was also a successful director and humanist. It was an incredibly spiritually evolved person who always tried to familiarize Westerners with Eastern culture and music. Finally (and this is important), Harrison was an avid gardener. Breeding he devoted all his spare time. A few years after his death, in 2004, the year, in memory of Harrison in Griffith Park in Los Angeles, a tree was planted. The inscription on the plaque reads: "In memory of the great humanists, artists, musicians and gardener».
Unfortunately, the tree died. And it happened because ... bugs! Bark beetles present devastation perpetrated throughout the park. You can imagine how laughed to Harrison, who died in the year 2001, if he saw the irony of this situation. The new tree is expected to be planted soon.
2. A man who holed Pikasso
Steve Wynn is one of the richest men in the world. This created a casino and resort owns almost half of Las Vegas. In addition, he is an avid art collector. Central to his collection covers painting by Pablo Picasso, entitled «Le Rêve» (fr. The Dream). The title of this portrait was also the name of the resort Bellagio, Wynn open.
Picasso was 50 years old when he wrote his next masterpiece. He wrote of his 22-year-old woman named Marie Therese Walter. The special flavor of this film gave that half of the face of the woman was depicted in the form of a penis. Wynn bought the painting from a private collector in the year 2001, and in 2006, he wanted to sell it for $ 139 million. But then something happened unthinkable. Wynn decided to show a picture of her friends, Nora Ephron and Barbara Waters. But he suffered from pigmentary retinal dystrophy, because of which he had violated peripheral vision, and that makes a person more sweeping movement. At that moment, when he talked with her friends, he accidentally jabbed an elbow directly into the fabric.
Repairing damages to businessman worth $ 90,000. After that, the picture is already estimated at $ 85 million. However, in 2013, the year Wynn still able to sell it for 155 million $.
3. The mural, which became famous after the "restoration"
122-year-old Elias Garcia Martinez mural titled «Ecce Homo» could hardly attract someone's attention outside his native Spanish town of Borja, if not for the "restoration work" that has come over her 80-year-old Cecilia Jimenez. Noticing that the frescoes in the church began to peel because of the high humidity in the building, an elderly woman decided to take matters into their own hands, and a little "touch up" the image. Acting without the permission of church representatives, Jimenez has painted a mural for the new, but her strokes were, shall we say, extremely witting.
As a result, the face of Christ was like a monkey's face. The original mural called «Ecce Homo», which translated from Latin means "That man," and now it is affectionately called «Ecce Mono» - «Here, monkey».
The Church, which is the fresco has since become a tourist attraction, and the number of visitors began to grow, the church began to take an entrance fee to anyone who wanted to see the "restored" fresco. One day, for four days it was collected $ 2600. The money then went to fund local charity.
4. Destruction of the Taliban 1700 Summer statuy
In Afghanistan, a few months before September 11 of 2001, the supreme Taliban leader Mullah Mohammed Omar issued a decree directed against the non-Islamic statues. Under this decree has got a lot of pagan images of people and animals that were simply destroyed. Among the monuments were also destroyed the ancient Buddhist statues, which were located at the foot of the Hindu Kush, in central Afghanistan. These statues stood there for almost 1700 years. Thus the Taliban decided to take revenge for the fact that the international community has agreed to provide humanitarian aid to Afghanistan at a time when the country was ravaged by war, drought and earthquakes.
Japanese parliamentary delegation suggested that humanitarian assistance in exchange for the removal of ancient statues of the country. UN Secretary-General, Kofi Annan, asked the representative of the Taliban Vahil Ahmad Muttavakilya not destroy the statue, and save the cultural heritage of Afghanistan. However, both requests were rejected.
After several unsuccessful attempts to destroy the statue with the help of anti-aircraft and tank shells, the Taliban out of Kabul brought a truck of dynamite. They made holes in the torso statues, laid the dynamite there, and then blew up.
5. An employee of the museum, broken chair Napoleona
Once one of the museum could not resist the temptation to sit where once sat Napoleon Bonaparte: Emperor on a folding chair. Perhaps all this was like a scene from a classic film-farce. Red leather, which was part of the chair seat, exploded when a worker sat at her museum. The wooden parts of the chair, too, were damaged. Meanwhile, the first Emperor of France has successfully used this chair in several military campaigns. Of course, the chair has now restored. Curator Philippe Costamagna, explained: "Restore the chair was not so difficult. Yet now it is not like before ».
6. A person who spotknulsya
If you ever saw the Qin Dynasty vase, then you know that this is an amazing piece of art. The attention to detail in this vase is really amazing. In 2006, the year in Cambridge (England) was an exhibition, which was attended by three of these vases. The museum's director appreciated the vase 849 000 $.
But where were exposed to these priceless vases? They were standing on the window sill, close to the stairs, and were absolutely no protection.
And then I went to the museum visitor, the 42 year-old man named Nick Flynn. He later stated to journalists that a wrong staircase. When he realized this, and turned to back down, he stepped on his shoe lace unleashed. Stepping on the lace, he fell down the stairs and hit his head directly in the Qin Dynasty vases, shattering them into hundreds of small pieces. Flynn quickly pulled himself together, got up from the floor and left the museum. But before that, he had to take a picture on the background of fragments of vases. Flynn later found and arrested, accused him of inflicting material damage on a large scale.
7. The most expensive car crash in istorii
In December of 2011, in Yamaguchi Prefecture (Japan), a group of owners of exotic cars decided to ride after a car show. Everything was going smoothly until one gentleman on the Ferrari F430 has not tried to overtake the car Toyota Prius, which went on the fast lane, but the rate of which was not too high. Ferrari driver lost control and crashed into a fence. It hit everybody who went after him. As a result of an accident were seven other Ferrari, among whom were the F360 Modena, F355, and a white Testarossa. Also suffered a Lamborghini Diablo, and a few "Mercedes' executive class. Although injuries by drivers of cars were pretty easy, the total amount of the damage from an accident exceeded 4 million $.
8. The man who dropped the bottle
Salvatore Calabrese is an expert in the preparation of cocktails. That one day he was going to create what was to become the most expensive cocktail in the world. The composition of the cocktail was as follows: 40 ml «Clos de Griffier Vieux Cognac» 1788-year, 20 ml «Kummel Liqueur» 1770 year, 20 ml «Dubb Orange Curacao» 1860 year, and two «Angostura Bitters» 1900 th year.
If you wanted to drink a cocktail, it would cost you $ 8800. The famous bartender working at the club "Playboy", in London, when in June of 2012 one of the visitors of the bar ordered expensive cognac, and personally wanted to look at a bottle of «Clos de Griffier Vieux Cognac». At the time, a bottle of brandy was estimated at $ 78,000. Have you noticed that there is written "was"? That's right: the client dropped the bottle from his hands, right in front of Calabrese, depriving it of the ability to use the legendary brandy to cook the most expensive cocktail in the world.
9. The 1425-year-old monastery, accidentally fell under bombёzhku
In the 529th year of St. Benedict of Nursia founded the monastery at Monte Cassino in Italy. It is located about 81 km from Rome. Today, St. Benedict is known as the founder of Christian monasticism in Europe. February 15, 1944 the first year, during the Second World War, the Abbey of Monte Cassino was almost completely destroyed after a series of bombings. American bombers dropped at the abbey a total of 1, 4 tons of bombs. Command of Americans believed that the monastery buildings used to house German soldiers, and are also used as observation posts. In addition, the monastery was built so that it is easy to be turned into a fortress. However, no German soldiers in the monastery was not, as the Benedictine monks had recently been able to negotiate with the Germans, and they allowed them to stay in the monastery. During the bombing killed a lot of people. In the ruins it was transformed not only the ancient monastery. Along with him were destroyed beautiful mosaics, frescoes, sculptures and other works of art.
10 works of art stolen by the Nazis, lost forever? 47,180,123
Starting from 1933, the year until the end of the war in 1945, the Nazis managed to steal about 20% of works of art in Europe. Even given the fact that many of the items were later returned, according to experts remains at least another 100,000 works that are considered lost forever. The Nazis looted art objects in order to fill up their own museums or private collections. German leaders, like Hermann Goering, turned their homes into real museums. More Nazis plundered many wealthy Jewish families before sending them to concentration camps. The famous Russian "Amber Room" is one of many examples irretrievably lost masterpiece. The walls in one of the offices of the summer palace of Catherine the Great were decorated with literally tons of amber. More in the finishing room used diamonds, emeralds, rubies and jade and onyx. The Germans dismantled the room, and for several years have demonstrated these treasures in one of the castles in Kaliningrad. In January 1945, in connection with the threat of bombing, the Germans were forced to again disassemble "Amber Room", and hid it in a safe place, the location of which remains unknown to this day. Boxes, which supposedly kept fragments of "Amber Room" were never seen.
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1. Wood of George Harrison ... killed the beetles! 73,364,740
Perhaps this message even gets you in the news. It is well known that George Harrison was a member of one of the greatest teams in history: The Beatles (the name comes from the word «beetles» - «bugs," but it deliberately replaced the letter «e» at «a», that the root of the word is read as «beat» - «rhythm»).
This man was more than a musician. He was also a successful director and humanist. It was an incredibly spiritually evolved person who always tried to familiarize Westerners with Eastern culture and music. Finally (and this is important), Harrison was an avid gardener. Breeding he devoted all his spare time. A few years after his death, in 2004, the year, in memory of Harrison in Griffith Park in Los Angeles, a tree was planted. The inscription on the plaque reads: "In memory of the great humanists, artists, musicians and gardener».
Unfortunately, the tree died. And it happened because ... bugs! Bark beetles present devastation perpetrated throughout the park. You can imagine how laughed to Harrison, who died in the year 2001, if he saw the irony of this situation. The new tree is expected to be planted soon.
2. A man who holed Pikasso
Steve Wynn is one of the richest men in the world. This created a casino and resort owns almost half of Las Vegas. In addition, he is an avid art collector. Central to his collection covers painting by Pablo Picasso, entitled «Le Rêve» (fr. The Dream). The title of this portrait was also the name of the resort Bellagio, Wynn open.
Picasso was 50 years old when he wrote his next masterpiece. He wrote of his 22-year-old woman named Marie Therese Walter. The special flavor of this film gave that half of the face of the woman was depicted in the form of a penis. Wynn bought the painting from a private collector in the year 2001, and in 2006, he wanted to sell it for $ 139 million. But then something happened unthinkable. Wynn decided to show a picture of her friends, Nora Ephron and Barbara Waters. But he suffered from pigmentary retinal dystrophy, because of which he had violated peripheral vision, and that makes a person more sweeping movement. At that moment, when he talked with her friends, he accidentally jabbed an elbow directly into the fabric.
Repairing damages to businessman worth $ 90,000. After that, the picture is already estimated at $ 85 million. However, in 2013, the year Wynn still able to sell it for 155 million $.
3. The mural, which became famous after the "restoration"
122-year-old Elias Garcia Martinez mural titled «Ecce Homo» could hardly attract someone's attention outside his native Spanish town of Borja, if not for the "restoration work" that has come over her 80-year-old Cecilia Jimenez. Noticing that the frescoes in the church began to peel because of the high humidity in the building, an elderly woman decided to take matters into their own hands, and a little "touch up" the image. Acting without the permission of church representatives, Jimenez has painted a mural for the new, but her strokes were, shall we say, extremely witting.
As a result, the face of Christ was like a monkey's face. The original mural called «Ecce Homo», which translated from Latin means "That man," and now it is affectionately called «Ecce Mono» - «Here, monkey».
The Church, which is the fresco has since become a tourist attraction, and the number of visitors began to grow, the church began to take an entrance fee to anyone who wanted to see the "restored" fresco. One day, for four days it was collected $ 2600. The money then went to fund local charity.
4. Destruction of the Taliban 1700 Summer statuy
In Afghanistan, a few months before September 11 of 2001, the supreme Taliban leader Mullah Mohammed Omar issued a decree directed against the non-Islamic statues. Under this decree has got a lot of pagan images of people and animals that were simply destroyed. Among the monuments were also destroyed the ancient Buddhist statues, which were located at the foot of the Hindu Kush, in central Afghanistan. These statues stood there for almost 1700 years. Thus the Taliban decided to take revenge for the fact that the international community has agreed to provide humanitarian aid to Afghanistan at a time when the country was ravaged by war, drought and earthquakes.
Japanese parliamentary delegation suggested that humanitarian assistance in exchange for the removal of ancient statues of the country. UN Secretary-General, Kofi Annan, asked the representative of the Taliban Vahil Ahmad Muttavakilya not destroy the statue, and save the cultural heritage of Afghanistan. However, both requests were rejected.
After several unsuccessful attempts to destroy the statue with the help of anti-aircraft and tank shells, the Taliban out of Kabul brought a truck of dynamite. They made holes in the torso statues, laid the dynamite there, and then blew up.
5. An employee of the museum, broken chair Napoleona
Once one of the museum could not resist the temptation to sit where once sat Napoleon Bonaparte: Emperor on a folding chair. Perhaps all this was like a scene from a classic film-farce. Red leather, which was part of the chair seat, exploded when a worker sat at her museum. The wooden parts of the chair, too, were damaged. Meanwhile, the first Emperor of France has successfully used this chair in several military campaigns. Of course, the chair has now restored. Curator Philippe Costamagna, explained: "Restore the chair was not so difficult. Yet now it is not like before ».
6. A person who spotknulsya
If you ever saw the Qin Dynasty vase, then you know that this is an amazing piece of art. The attention to detail in this vase is really amazing. In 2006, the year in Cambridge (England) was an exhibition, which was attended by three of these vases. The museum's director appreciated the vase 849 000 $.
But where were exposed to these priceless vases? They were standing on the window sill, close to the stairs, and were absolutely no protection.
And then I went to the museum visitor, the 42 year-old man named Nick Flynn. He later stated to journalists that a wrong staircase. When he realized this, and turned to back down, he stepped on his shoe lace unleashed. Stepping on the lace, he fell down the stairs and hit his head directly in the Qin Dynasty vases, shattering them into hundreds of small pieces. Flynn quickly pulled himself together, got up from the floor and left the museum. But before that, he had to take a picture on the background of fragments of vases. Flynn later found and arrested, accused him of inflicting material damage on a large scale.
7. The most expensive car crash in istorii
In December of 2011, in Yamaguchi Prefecture (Japan), a group of owners of exotic cars decided to ride after a car show. Everything was going smoothly until one gentleman on the Ferrari F430 has not tried to overtake the car Toyota Prius, which went on the fast lane, but the rate of which was not too high. Ferrari driver lost control and crashed into a fence. It hit everybody who went after him. As a result of an accident were seven other Ferrari, among whom were the F360 Modena, F355, and a white Testarossa. Also suffered a Lamborghini Diablo, and a few "Mercedes' executive class. Although injuries by drivers of cars were pretty easy, the total amount of the damage from an accident exceeded 4 million $.
8. The man who dropped the bottle
Salvatore Calabrese is an expert in the preparation of cocktails. That one day he was going to create what was to become the most expensive cocktail in the world. The composition of the cocktail was as follows: 40 ml «Clos de Griffier Vieux Cognac» 1788-year, 20 ml «Kummel Liqueur» 1770 year, 20 ml «Dubb Orange Curacao» 1860 year, and two «Angostura Bitters» 1900 th year.
If you wanted to drink a cocktail, it would cost you $ 8800. The famous bartender working at the club "Playboy", in London, when in June of 2012 one of the visitors of the bar ordered expensive cognac, and personally wanted to look at a bottle of «Clos de Griffier Vieux Cognac». At the time, a bottle of brandy was estimated at $ 78,000. Have you noticed that there is written "was"? That's right: the client dropped the bottle from his hands, right in front of Calabrese, depriving it of the ability to use the legendary brandy to cook the most expensive cocktail in the world.
9. The 1425-year-old monastery, accidentally fell under bombёzhku
In the 529th year of St. Benedict of Nursia founded the monastery at Monte Cassino in Italy. It is located about 81 km from Rome. Today, St. Benedict is known as the founder of Christian monasticism in Europe. February 15, 1944 the first year, during the Second World War, the Abbey of Monte Cassino was almost completely destroyed after a series of bombings. American bombers dropped at the abbey a total of 1, 4 tons of bombs. Command of Americans believed that the monastery buildings used to house German soldiers, and are also used as observation posts. In addition, the monastery was built so that it is easy to be turned into a fortress. However, no German soldiers in the monastery was not, as the Benedictine monks had recently been able to negotiate with the Germans, and they allowed them to stay in the monastery. During the bombing killed a lot of people. In the ruins it was transformed not only the ancient monastery. Along with him were destroyed beautiful mosaics, frescoes, sculptures and other works of art.
10 works of art stolen by the Nazis, lost forever? 47,180,123
Starting from 1933, the year until the end of the war in 1945, the Nazis managed to steal about 20% of works of art in Europe. Even given the fact that many of the items were later returned, according to experts remains at least another 100,000 works that are considered lost forever. The Nazis looted art objects in order to fill up their own museums or private collections. German leaders, like Hermann Goering, turned their homes into real museums. More Nazis plundered many wealthy Jewish families before sending them to concentration camps. The famous Russian "Amber Room" is one of many examples irretrievably lost masterpiece. The walls in one of the offices of the summer palace of Catherine the Great were decorated with literally tons of amber. More in the finishing room used diamonds, emeralds, rubies and jade and onyx. The Germans dismantled the room, and for several years have demonstrated these treasures in one of the castles in Kaliningrad. In January 1945, in connection with the threat of bombing, the Germans were forced to again disassemble "Amber Room", and hid it in a safe place, the location of which remains unknown to this day. Boxes, which supposedly kept fragments of "Amber Room" were never seen.
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