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    What is the most painted/drawn object in the World?

    Grapes are just as popular in still life paintings.
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    What is the most painted/drawn object in the World?

    I give my vote for trees to. The other is humans, though I don't know whether we can be classified as "objects", even in this context.
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    Singapore, France partner to ease cross-border operations of fintech companies

    The Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) said it has partnered with the authorities in France to enhance fintech cooperation between the two countries. It has signed cooperation agreements with the Autorite de Controle Prudentiel et de Resolution (ACPR) and the Autorite des Marches Financiers...
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    UK schoolboy corrects Nasa data error

    I always wonder about kids like this, do they end up living up to all the potential they have once they become adults.
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    Bro, I’m Going Rogue’: The Wall Street Informant Who Double-Crossed the FBI

    How long before Hollywood makes a movie about this guy, I wonder.
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    [Amazing] Cave paintings: Up to 40,000 years Old

    Regarding your last question, I think the latter is a more probable explanation, i.e. they came up with these techniques independently (of course, one shouldn't discount the possibility of various tribes/people migrating in search of food over vast distances, we do know that sort of thing...
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    "Robots, artificial intelligence boom may cost US, UK at least 1/3 of their jobs: Study"

    What works for one community may not necessarily work for another living in different circumstances and things become even more complicated on a global scale.
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    [Amazing] Cave paintings: Up to 40,000 years Old

    Those are truly incredible. It's haunting to think about it - the people who made these paintings have long turned to dust, but their mark on the world remains.
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    "Robots, artificial intelligence boom may cost US, UK at least 1/3 of their jobs: Study"

    Technological progress is a one-way street. People used to break into factories and destroy the newly installed steam-engines because they replaced them, but that didn't stop the wide-scale industrialization. I don't think we have a choice but to accept that the next big step in technological...
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    FBI: Losses from binary options fraud run into the millions

    Right now binary options in the UK are, indeed, under the jurisdiction of the Gambling Commission (so I am assuming gambling is legal there), but due to the intense interest people display in trading binary options, i.e. they keep calling the FCA to ask information about it, the FCA will intends...
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    Porsche is celebrating its best year in history by giving every single employee a bonus

    For a brief moment there I read there that they're giving all their employees Porsche cars. :D That said, the actual bonus is still quite impressive.
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    Ungrateful Muskrat Turns on Rescuers

    All animals can be mean if they feel cornered, or are scared, or angry - they react on instinct. Even pets can do that, and they're trained and bred to live in a human environment. Now I have a cat and a dog, but once I had two cats plus the dog - one of the cats passed away from old age...
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    Ungrateful Muskrat Turns on Rescuers

    It's a panicked wild animal, we can't really expect them to have human or even pet animal reasoning.
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    'Grexit' is back

    Greece seems to have been in constant crisis for the past few years, I don't know how the locals deal with it. :confused:
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    EMG Brewery and Pizzeria

    I love all the pictures that you post, but sometimes I wonder whether you have any kind of digestion issues. I'd eat all that, but at the same time if I ate it without any kind of vegetable I'd probably feel sick.
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    US court orders Vision Financial Partners, founder to pay over $6.5 mln for binary options frauds

    Me too. It's good when frauds get their comeuppance.
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    World's youngest new billionaires are San Francisco brothers

    Some people manage to make it very young, and those two made it big. It's admireable.
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    US court orders Vision Financial Partners, founder to pay over $6.5 mln for binary options frauds

    The US District Court for the Southern District of Florida has ordered binary options broker Vision Financial Partners and its founder Neil Pecker to jointly pay more than $6.5 million for fraudulent solicitation and misappropriation in connection with off-exchange binary options, the US...
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