 "Irish Independent (Dublin, Republic of Ireland)")
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Beit that! Sale of bronzes copperfastens an Irish gem.(NEWS)
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Byline: Ciaran Byrne
"I'M holding my breath . . . oh my goodness, that's just fabulous, absolutely fabulous," cried Patricia Oliver, the curator of the Alfred Beit Foundation, when word came through from London.
The news was good. Very good. The Beit Collection of Italian Bronzes made EU3.8m when it went under the hammer yesterday at Christie's auction house in London.
The sum, which far exceeded pre-sale expectations, astounded the art world and sparked jubilation at Russborough House in Co Wicklow.
Christie's had described the ...
 "The Mirror (London, England)")
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Take a trip into space with Yuri; Pick Of The Day: Days that Shook the World, BBC2, 7pm.(Features)
Newspaper article from: The Mirror (London, England)
; ...orbit around the Earth. The young man's name was Yuri Alekseyevich Gagarin and his 108-minute orbit in space sparked the...less sophisticated age. CAPTION(S): SPACEMAN: Yuri Gagarin back on Earth and, above, inside the Vostok 1...
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 "The Birmingham Post (England)")
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On this day.(ROP)
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; ...Birth of Russian astronaut Yuri Alekseyevich Gagarin, the first man in space. The...carpenter on a collective farm, Gagarin graduated as a moulder from a...morning of April 12, 1961, Gagarin's Vostok 1 spacecraft was launched...
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Newspaper article from: The Independent - London
; ...1928; Enoch Arnold Bennett, novelist, 1931; Michael Joseph Savage, New Zealand prime minister, 1940; Yuri Alekseyevich Gagarin, cosmonaut, killed in an aircraft accident 1968. On this day: Oliver Goldsmith's Vicar of Wakefield was...
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U.S. Programmer to Become Space Tourist
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; ...saying they were perfectly qualified for the job. "The answer to that question is very simple - neither Yuri Alekseyevich Gagarin, nor German Stepanovich Titov ... nor the others had had any flight experience," Yurchikhin said referring...
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