| ▲ | It's Their Mona Lisa(ironicsans.ghost.io) |
| 27 points by ramimac 4 days ago | 10 comments |
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| ▲ | petercooper 2 hours ago | parent | next [-] |
| Upon seeing the entry for Marie-Antoinette’s private theater, I felt an urge to proclaim the Amargosa Opera House as Death Valley's "Mona Lisa". I was lucky enough to get a private tour and it was like stepping into one of the world's greatest works of art in the most bizarre of locations. The pictures don't do it justice but https://lenspire.zeiss.com/photo/en/article/mario-basner-cap... |
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| ▲ | rawling an hour ago | parent [-] | | I think the (OP) article has screwed up here. The article, and I think its original source, name a particular set from the theater as the palace's Mona Lisa. But the article has a picture of the theater itself, and even misnames the theater after the set. Tatler source: "This includes machinery that causes a tree to rise from a trapdoor and three sets – a simple interior, a forest and a temple of Minerva – the latter being the oldest intact decor in the world, dating back to 1754 – ‘our own Mona Lisa,’ said Masson." OP article: "What is it? The Temple of Minerva theater set (c.1754) from Marie-Antoinette’s private theater." OP caption on picture of theater: "Temple of Minerva theater (c. 1754)" |
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| ▲ | ggm 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| I thought I saw "woman with a polecat" in the SF legion of honour gallery. Maybe it was on tour. (This is at least a decade ago and possibly more) |
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| ▲ | ashwinnair99 3 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| Every culture has that one thing outsiders reduce to a joke or a meme. Rarely bothers to ask why it matters to the people it actually belongs to. |
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| ▲ | ayaros 3 hours ago | parent | prev [-] |
| What is the Mona Lisa of Hacker News? |
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| ▲ | thelibrarian 3 hours ago | parent | next [-] | | Colin Percival (cperciva), upon being dismissed due to never having won a prestigious mathematical award such as a Putnam fellowship, revealing that he had in fact won a Putnam fellowship in 1999. | |
| ▲ | argee 3 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] | | Based on TFA, nothing. Since no has quoted anything as such. So, allow me. This [0] is the Mona Lisa of Hacker News. (Most favorited post circa 2020, though now that would likely be something else.) [0] https://jgthms.com/web-design-in-4-minutes/ | |
| ▲ | fooker 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] | | Has to be the dropbox comment | |
| ▲ | bitwize 3 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | The guy who dismissed Dropbox. | | |
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