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A floral porcelain bowl, purchased for $35 at a yard sale in Connecticut last year, just sold for over $700,000 at a Sotheby's auction. Only after having the bowl evaluated by experts at Sotheby's did the yard-sale-goer discover that he had casually bought a rare 15th-century Chinese bowl. There are only six other companion bowls like this one known to exist around the world, Live Science previously reported . The experts estimated the bowl, which is shaped like a lotus bud and painted with cobalt-blue floral patterns, to be worth between $300,000 and $500,000. But on Wednesday (March 17), after a battle between four bidders at the Sotheby's Important Chinese Art auction in New York, the bowl sold for $721,800, more than 20,000 times its asking price at the yard sale. Related: Gallery: Ancient Chinese warriors protect secret tomb The bowl dates back to the reign of the Ming dynasty's third emperor, known as the Yongle Emperor, who ruled from 1403 to 1424. … [Read more...] about $35 yard sale bowl sells for over $700,000

Le Super Bowl 2020, ce n’est pas que du football américain. Pour de nombreux téléspectateurs, c’est avant tout l’occasion de découvrir les bandes annonces inédites des films et des séries qui vont marquer l’année en cours. En l’occurrence pour cette édition, les futurs opus des franchises Marvel, Disney, James Bond et Fast and Furious. Tous les studios de production ne sont pas représentés au Super Bowl. Et pour cause : un spot TV de 30 secondes pendant la finale coûte 5,6 millions de dollars. Faites le calcul pour une bande-annonce de deux minutes comme celle de Mulan . Ainsi Warner Bros et Sony ont décidé de ne pas participer à l'événement, ce qui signifie que vous ne verrez pas de nouvelles images des films DC comme Birds of Prey ou Wonder Woman 1984 . Aucune mise en avant de Morbius non plus, le spin-off des films Spider-Man définira sa promotion autrement. Ci-dessous, nous avons rassemblé toutes les bandes-annonces du Super Bowl 2020. Si vous avez manqué … [Read more...] about Super Bowl 2020 : voici toutes les bandes annonces qu’il ne fallait pas manquer

Lady Gaga and her pointy shoulder pads crushed the Super Bowl halftime show , and we assume you'll want to relive all that glory soon. So, courtesy of the NFL , here's the full video. And if you just want to replay that amazing mic drop over and over, that's fine too. Gaga wants you to do you, you know? 'Late Night' writer Karen Chee gives powerful speech on the Atlanta shootings Haunted therapy and a sex bus: Take a sneak beak at 'Tuca & Bertie' season 2 Trevor Noah delivers powerful monologue on Atlanta shootings Justin 'I'm a Mac' Long cracks Apple dongle joke in new Intel ad … [Read more...] about Watch Lady Gaga’s triumphant Super Bowl halftime show in full

Video courtesy of NowThisNews Power to half of Mercedes-Benz Superdome, including the scoreboard, went dark with 13:22 left in the third quarter of the Super Bowl. Gameplay resumed at 9:10 p.m. ET after nearly 35 minutes of head scratching. During the outage, Twitter lit up with speculation as to what caused the outage. Oreo also shared a yummy reactionary tweet . Is this the part where Bane comes out? — Joe Fernandez (@JoeFernandez) February 4, 2013 Beyonce used up all the power with this: twitpic.com/c0qk4t #SB47 — NowThis News (@nowthisnews) February 4, 2013 Who backed up against the light switch? — Bill Maher (@billmaher) February 4, 2013 Sending some LEDs to the @ mbusa Superdome right now... — Audi (@Audi) February 4, 2013 Finally, America cares about the infrastructure in NOLA. — Anonymous (@YourAnonNews) February 4, 2013 When the lights go out in the #superdome ... The networks make more money :) #Superbowl … [Read more...] about 15 Things That May Have Caused Super Bowl Power Outage

Want to know which Super Bowl brands are already stirring up the Twittering masses? Here's an infographic that'll give you the scoop on the latest pre-buzz on Twitter . Super Bowl XLV is still a day away, but there's already intense interest in the commercials that will be interrupted from time to time by a football game. Many of those ads have already leaked onto YouTube , and some have pulled out in front of the pack, certain to be standouts in tomorrow's game. This data is from the Meltwater Group, using its Meltwater Buzz social media monitoring tool to calculate volume of tweets generated by each one of these brands since last Friday, more than a week ago. However, this is the pre-buzz on Twitter. A study from marketing technology and research firm Alterian shows PepsiCo's Doritos leading the pre-game buzz bowl, but it's not all positive. Take a look at the top 10, and then at the bottom check out the clever video that spurred the most pre-buzz for its brand in … [Read more...] about Top 10 Super Bowl Brands With the Most Twitter Pre-Buzz [Infographic]