Postcard from Titanic s radio operator, signed Love Jack , goes under the hammer
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Last Updated: Apr 13, 2021, 06:14 PM IST
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A photo copy provided by RR Auction of a postcard dated May 31, 1911, shows the Titanic, in Belfast, Northern Ireland.
BOSTON: A postcard written by the Titanic s senior radio operator just weeks before the ocean liner sank in the North Atlantic in 1912 has been put up for auction. The card, with a glossy image of the ill-fated ship on the front, was written by Jack Phillips to his sister, Elsie Phillips, in March 1912 while awaiting the ship s first sea trials, according to RR Auction in Boston.
Government invites bids to appoint merchant bankers for divestment in NFL, RCFL
April 13, 2021
The central government holds 74.71% of shares in NFL
The government has invited bids to appoint merchant bankers and selling brokers to divest part of its stake in two fertilizer companies – National Fertiliser Limited (NFL) and Rashtriye Chemical and Fertiliser Limited (RCFL).
According to the proposal floated by the Department of Investment and Public Asset Management (DIPAM), the government proposes to sell 20 per cent of its stake in NFL and 10 per cent in RCFL. The share price of NFL was up by 1.78 per cent during mid trading on BSE while a share of RCFL was trading with 3.27 per cent gain over the previous day closing.
Google Doodle to mark 151st anniversary of The Metropolitan Museum of Art s founding
The images are all drawn from The Mets Open Access program, which includes some 400,000 photographs of objects in the Museums collection available for use without restriction.
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.- The 151st anniversary of the founding of The Metropolitan Museum of Art will be celebrated with a custom Google Doodle, the creative treatment of the Google logo featured on the search engines homepage. The Met-inspired animated Doodle will launch in the United States at 12 a.m. on Tuesday, April 13, and be viewable for 24 hours. The Doodle will appear in more than 20 countries.
New publication investigates digital developments on the African continent
Digital Imaginaries. African Positions Beyond the Binary.
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.-ZKM launched a new publication called Digital Imaginaries. Digital Imaginaries. African Positions Beyond the Binary was published in German and English by Kerber Verlag Bielefeld/Berlin on March 23, 2021.
The book presents the results of the three-year cooperative project Digital Imaginaries (2018-2021). The project partners were Kër Thiossane and Afropixel Festival in Dakar/Senegal, Wits Art Museum and Fak ugesi Festival of African Digital Innovation in Johannesburg, South Africa, and the ZKM | Karlsruhe. Digital Imaginaries investigated digital developments on the African continent by focusing on exhibitions, festivals and performances, seminars, lectures and artist residencies. The project leader was Richard Rottenburg, curators of the exhibitions in Dakar, Johannesburg, and Karlsruhe were Julien McHardy, Marion Louisgrand Sylla,
One-Owner 2007 Jeep Grand Cherokee SRT8 Is a Brutish Super SUV Worth Preserving 13 Apr 2021, 14:14 UTC ·
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As a remnant of the early days of super SUVs, this Jeep Grand Cherokee SRT8 is certainly worthy of our attention. It came out during an era when most of us weren’t sure what to make of fast people haulers, yet it managed to compete very well with its German rivals. 29 photos
Back in the late 2000s, the Grand Cherokee SRT8 would often find itself matched up against the first-generation Porsche Cayenne Turbo, as well as the W164 Mercedes ML 63 AMG, both of which had more power than the Jeep. Still, performance was never an issue with the latter.