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Wednesday, June 19, 2019
Tightrope virtuoso Philippe Petit still defying gravity as he nears 70 NEW YORK - Weeks from his 70th birthday, and a few decades from his famous high-wire walk between the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center, French tightrope artist Philippe Petit continues to defy gravity. It’s been a few minutes since Petit wrapped up his show on this sunny Saturday afternoon but his mind is still up there. Several people draw near, but the red-haired artist appears not to see them. He has come down off the wire but not out of his trance. “My close friends, they say when you come back down after a walk, you’re like a zombie, like an alien. “You’re still on the wire,” he said after the walk earlier this month above the roof of the Glass House -- a house-turned-museum in New Canaan, Connecticut, designed exactly 70 years ago by
famed architect Philip Johnson. With a tight physique but a supple way of moving, Petit says age hasn’t dented his abilities. He still trains three hours a day, six days a week. “I think I can do what I was doing when I was 18 years old,” he said after the ceremony to mark the Glass House’s 70th birthday. “I think I’m actually more in possession of my talent as a wire walker today at 70 years old than I was as a little kid,” he added. “I have nothing to prove anymore.” American by adoption, he decided to stay permanently in the United States after his famed walk at the World Trade Center in New York in 1974 -- 1,300 feet (400 meters) above the ground. He still feels the call of the wire just as deeply. “I always feel excited,” he said. “Like a kid. I am impatient to start.” (afp)
Wednesday, June 19, 2019
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A revolver believed to be the gun Dutch 19th century painter Vincent Van Gogh would have used to kill himself on 27 July 1890 is on public display at Paris’ Drouot auction house on June 19, 2019 before it goes under the hammer.
Gun ‘Van Gogh killed himself with’ to go under hammer
PARIS - The revolver with which Vincent van Gogh is believed to have shot himself is to go under the hammer Wednesday at a Paris auction house.
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French high wire artist Philippe Petit performs an aerial walk to launch the celebration of the 70th anniversary of Philip Johnson’s Glass House at their summer party on June 9, 2019 in New Canaan.
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Billed as “the most famous weapon in the history of art”, the seven mm Lefaucheux revolver is expected to fetch up to 60,000 euros ($67,000). Van Gogh experts believe that he shot himself with the revolver near the village of Auvers-sur-Oise north of Paris, where he spent the last few months of his life in 1890. Discovered by a farmer in 1965 in the same field where the troubled Dutch painter is thought to have
fatally wounded himself, the gun has already been exhibited at the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam. While Art Auction, who are selling the gun, say there is no way of being absolutely certain that it is the fatal weapon, tests showed it had been in the ground for 75 years, which would fit. The Dutch artist had borrowed the gun from the owner of the inn in the village where he was staying.
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He died 36 hours later after staggering wounded back to the auberge in the dark. It was not his first dramatic act of self-harm. Two years earlier in 1888, he cut off his ear before offering it to a woman in a brothel in Arles in the south of France. While most art historians agree that Van Gogh killed himself, that assumption has been questioned in recent years, with some researchers claiming that the fatal shot may have been fired accidentally by two local boys playing with the weapon in the field. (afp)
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In this file photo taken on June 15, 1999 ethnic Albanian population of Mitrovica, northern Kosovo, celebrate the withdrawal of the Serbian forces. Twenty years ago on June 12, 2019,
Population of Earth to reach 9.7 billion in 2050: UN
The world population is expected to climb to 9.7 billion in 2050 from 7.7 billion today, with the population of sub-Saharan Africa doubling, a United Nations report released Monday said. The population could then grow to 11 billion by 2100, according to the United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs’s “World Population Prospects” report. The study paints a picture of a future in which a handful of countries see their populaces surge as life expectancy lengthens while the global growth rate
slows amid declining fertility rates. By 2050, more than half of the world’s population growth will be concentrated in just nine countries: India, Nigeria, Pakistan, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Ethiopia, Tanzania, Indonesia, Egypt and the United States. Meanwhile the world’s mostpopulous country China will see
its population drop by 2.2 percent, or around 31.4 million, between 2019 and 2050. All told, 27 countries or territories have experienced a reduction of at least one percent in the size of their populations since 2010 due to low levels of fertility. The report also says deaths are outpacing new births in Belarus, Estonia, Germany, Hungary, Italy, Japan, Russia, Serbia and Ukraine, but that population loss will be offset by an inflow of migrants.
The overall global fertility rate, which declined from 3.2 births per-woman in 1990 to 2.5 in 2019, is expected to fall further to 2.2 in 2050. That’s close to the minimum of 2.1 births needed to ensure the replacement of generations and avoid long-term population decline in the absence of migration, according to the United Nations. The report also projects growing life expectancy generally, including in poor countries where it is now seven years less than the global
average. Global average life expectancy should reach 77.1 years in 2050 against 72.6 years currently, the report says. In 1990, the average life expectancy was 64.2 years. (afp) News can also be heard in “Bali Image” at Global Radio FM 96.5 from 9.30 until 10.00 am. Listen to Global Radio FM at http:// globalfmbali.listen2myradio.com or live video streaming at http:// radioglobalfmbali.com and http:// ustream.tv/channel/global-fm-bali.