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In December 2020, Lionel Messi scored his 644th goal for Barcelona. That goal broke a 46-year-old record, as Messi had now scored the most goals for a single club of anyone ever, eclipsing the figure set by Brazilian legend Pelé for Santos.
To mark this achievement, Messi has donated the adidas boots he wore to broke the record to the Museu Nacional d’Art de Catalunya (MNAC), where they will be displayed for one month. After this exhibition, the record-breaking boots will be auctioned off for charity, raising money for the museum’s Art and Health program for children with oncological diseases and their families.
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Excitement erupted from the streets as people from across Catalonia arrived in Barcelona to discover the thrilling industrial and cultural wonders being exhibited at the 1888 Barcelona Universal Exposition. The stodgy citadel locals had grown to detest was replaced with a grand green space akin to New York’s Central Park, and to visitors’ shock, an extraordinary castle-like structure stood in the background with large blue-and-white shields and fantastical motifs. Architect Lluís Domènech i Montaner intended for Castell dels Tres Dragons to be a striking café that would wow guests at the fair, but it instead became the starting point for modernisme in Barcelona.
One-of-a-kind dinosaur removed from Brazil sparks backlash, investigation Michael Greshko
The dinosaur
Ubirajara jubatus is the first known non-avian dinosaur with unusually prominent shoulder feathers. The fossil also has sparked controversy amid concern that the fossil s 1995 export from Brazil may have been illegal.
In 1995, a museum in southwestern Germany acquired an unusual fossil from the cream-colored limestone of northeastern Brazil: a 120-million-year-old dinosaur covered in an odd material that one scientist thought might be algae.
Now, 25 years later, scientists have confirmed the predator is one of a kind, the first feathered, non-avian dinosaur found in the Southern Hemisphere and Brazilian scientists are calling for the fossil to be returned from Germany. Since the dinosaur, named