Nasa’s test shuttle Enterprise has flown over New York, taking an aerial tour of some of Manhattan’s most famous landmarks, on the journey to its new home.

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The most famous man in the literary world, if you are under three feet tall, has a trim beard and a lean physique and is currently sending the kindergartners of Raymond Elementary School into fits of apoplectic hysteria because he has just uttered the funniest phrase in the history of the universe, which is “bird poop.” Read full article > >

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Mo Willems is the go-to author for children — and their parents

There are many ways to mark the 100th anniversary of the world’s most famous shipwreck, but time is running out for a submersible trip to the deep.

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Celebrating the Titanic by Going to See It

Three men whose work helped uncover how the immune system works, and in so doing identified three milestones in an evolutionary path extending two billion years into the past, were awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine on Monday. This year’s award, however, is unique in the 110-year history of the world’s most famous prize in that one of the recipients — Ralph M. Steinman of Rockefeller University — was dead when the award was announced. Rules for the prize stipulate that recipients must be living. Read full article > >

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BEIRUT — A renowned political cartoonist whose drawings expressed Syrians’ frustrated hopes for change was grabbed after he left his studio early Thursday and beaten by masked gunmen who broke his hands and dumped him on a road outside Damascus. One of Syria’s most famous artists, Ali Ferzat, 60, earned international recognition and the respect of many Arabs with stinging caricatures that infuriated dictators including Iraq’s Saddam Hussein, Libya’s Moammar Gadhafi and, particularly in recent months, Syria’s autocratic Assad family. Read full article > >

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For many years in the 20th century, Igor Stravinsky was the most famous living composer in the United States. His music, however, was not as famous as he was. Beyond “The Firebird,” “Petrouchka,” and “The Rite of Spring” — three of the ballets he wrote for Diaghilev’s Ballets Russes in the century’s second decade — many audiences would be hard-pressed to name another work, beyond, perhaps, his 1951 opera “The Rake’s Progress.”

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For many years in the 20th century, Igor Stravinsky was the most famous living composer in the United States. His music, however, was not as famous as he was. Beyond “The Firebird,” “Petrouchka,” and “The Rite of Spring” — three of the ballets he wrote for Diaghilev’s Ballets Russes in the century’s second decade — many audiences would be hard-pressed to name another work, beyond, perhaps, his 1951 opera “The Rake’s Progress.”

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But by far the most famous thing Montaigne did was to retire from public life, at the age of thirty-seven, and retreat into the tower where he kept his library. There, over the next two decades, despite many interruptions, he wrote the 107 short speculative works that he called his essais, or attempts. He published the first version in 1580, though he kept writing additions all his life. . . .

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LORIN STEIN—New Books

Ever mysterious, “Mona Lisa,” one of the world’s most famous paintings, may be hiding one more secret. Is she a he? An Italian researchers claims that Leonardo used a young male companion, Gian Giacomo Caprotti, who worked for the Renaissance master as…

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‘Mona Lisa’ Was a Boy

One of India’s most famous musicians, Bhimsen Joshi, dies at a hospital in the western city of Pune, aged 89.

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Is Natalie Portman now the most famous person in America? Her raunchy new rom-com, No Strings Attached, in which the Black Swan star plays opposite Ashton Kutcher as “friends with benefits,” won the weekend at the box office with a haul of $20.3…

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In the Book Review this weekend we review “Ballet for Martha: Making Appalachian Spring,” a picture book about one of Martha Graham’s most famous dances. On YouTube, there’s a beautifully filmed version.

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Paper Cuts: ‘Appalachian Spring’: From Page to Screen

Mount Etna, Europe’s most famous volcano, rumbled Wednesday, sending lava down its side. Italian vulcanologists are monitoring the volcano, they said Thursday.

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A museum dedicated to some of Salvador Dali’s most famous paintings re-opens in the Florida city of St Petersburg.

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Dali museum re-opens in Florida

As the Archers prepares to celebrate its 60th birthday, David Sillito offers an exclusive look behind the scenes of UK radio’s most famous village.

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Making the sounds of The Archers