Welcome to our viewers on pbs in america and around the globe. Hello 0n the eve of his inauguration president Electjoe Biden along with Vice President elect Kamala Harris have attended a Covid Memorial Service in washington, in tribute to the 400,000 americans whove lost their lives to coronavirus. National landmarks were lit up in tribute. Mr biden who will spend the night at the president ial guest house blair house paid tribute to medical workers and spoke of the importance of healing as a nation. To heal, we must remember, and its hard sometimes to remember, but thats how we heal. Its important to do that as a nation. Thats why were here today. Between sundown and dusk, let us shine the lights in the darkness along the sacred pool of reflection and remember all whom we lost. 0ur correspondent larry madowo is in washington with more. The highlight of the day was that Memorial Service thatjoe biden and Kamala Harris attended at that reflecting pool which provided this really beautifu
The Way the World Works
The Staten Island Zoo is weathering a storm of controversy over the prediction made by its resident groundhog, Staten Island Chuck, on Feb. 2 an annual event at the zoo. Chuck popped up on a Facebook livestream at the designated hour, on the designated day, but something seemed . off. After hours of accumulating snow in the New York area, the
New York Post reported, Chuck was seen to emerge into bright sunlight with no snow on the ground, his handlers wearing sweatshirts. So there ya have it, folks, we re gonna have an early spring, announced zoo executive director Ken Mitchell. Viewers weren t fooled, one commenting, Welppp, this isn t live. Previous Groundhog Day celebrations at the zoo have also raised a ruckus. In 2014, a stand-in groundhog named Charlotte died after being dropped by Mayor Bill de Blasio, and in 2009 Chuck bit Mayor Mike Bloomberg s finger.
The painting was bought for Anu Dhabi museum
The painting by the Renaissance legend was sold for a stunning $450 million at a Christie s auction in 2017 to a Saudi royal, later identified as crown prince Mohammed bin Salman, who reportedly bought it to gift the painting to Louvre Abu Dhabi museum.
The painting was supposed to be shown during an exhibition at the museum in 2018, which had been delayed indefinitely.
Theft
None in the museum knew that the painting was gone
The copy of the original painting was made by artist Giacomo Alibrandi in the 1500s and was purchased by an adviser of Emperor Charles V, Giovan Antonio Muscettola.
Italian police have found a 500-year-old copy of Leonardo da Vinci’s Salvator Mundi in a Naples flat and returned it to a church that had no idea it had been stolen.
Officers said late Monday they had arrested the 36-year-old owner of the apartment on suspicion of receiving stolen goods, after the painting was found in his bedroom cupboard.
Depicting Jesus Christ with his hand raised in a blessing and holding a crystal orb, the painting is part of the Doma Museum collection within the San Domenico Maggiore church complex in Naples.
It is a copy of Leonardo’s famous work that in 2017
A 16th century copy of Leonardo da Vinci’s Salvator Mundi (Saviour of the World) has been recovered by Italian police from a cupboard in a flat in Naples.