Dix Noonan Webb sells three secret C.I.A. medals for £22,000
The medals - each framed and hidden behind a lithograph picture of the Middle East were being sold by the family and had been expected to fetch £2,000-3,000.
LONDON
.- An important group of Central Intelligence Agency (C.I.A) medals presented to one of Americas greatest intelligence officers sold for £22,000 (hammer price) seven times their pre-sale estimate - at Dix Noonan Webb in auction of Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria on Wednesday, February 17, 2021. The medals - each framed and hidden behind a lithograph picture of the Middle East were being sold by the family and had been expected to fetch £2,000-3,000. They were bought by a London-based buyer who was new to DNW but was fascinated with spy-related items.
Soviet star and New Year s icon Andrei Myagkov dies at 82
Russian President Vladimir Putin shakes hands with actor Andrei Myagkov during an awards ceremony at the Kremlin in Moscow on December 25, 2013. Iconic Russian actor Andrei Myagkov,
MOSCOW
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.- Andrei Myagkov, a Russian actor whose box office hits including New Year s Eve favourite The Irony of Fate became iconic across the Soviet Union, has died in Moscow aged 82.
Myagkov starred in some of the biggest classics of Soviet cinema and The Irony of Fate a 1976 romantic comedy continues to be watched across Russia and the countries of the ex-Soviet Union on every New Year s Eve.
Longwood Gardens to expand and transform its renowned conservatory grounds
Interior View, West Conservatory Longwood Reimagined: A New Garden Experience. Courtesy of WEISS/MANFREDI with Reed Hilderbrand for Longwood Gardens.
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.-Longwood Gardens today unveiled plans for a sweeping yet deeply sensitive transformation of its core area of conservatory gardens, in the most ambitious revitalization in a century of Americas greatest center for horticultural display. Adding new plantings and buildings across 17 acres, Longwood Reimagined: A New Garden Experience will expand the public spaces of the renowned central grounds and connect them from east to west, offering a newly unified but continually varied journey from lush formal gardens to views over the open meadows of Pennsylvanias Brandywine Valley.