From today's featured articleDiamonds Are Forever is the fourth novel by the English author Ian Fleming to feature his fictional British Secret Service agent James Bond. Fleming wrote the story at his Goldeneye estate in Jamaica, inspired by a Sunday Times article on diamond smuggling. The book was first published on 26 March 1956. The story centres on Bond's investigation of a diamond-smuggling operation that originates in the mines of Sierra Leone and runs to Las Vegas. Along the way Bond meets and falls in love with one of the members of the smuggling gang, Tiffany Case. Fleming's background research formed the basis for his non-fiction 1957 book The Diamond Smugglers. The Bond novel received broadly positive reviews at the time of publication. It was serialised in the Daily Express newspaper, first in an abridged, multi-part form and then as a comic strip. In 1971 it was adapted into the seventh film in the Bond series, and the sixth one to star Sean Connery as Bond. (Full article...)
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Portrait of a Man is a painting by the Italian Renaissance painter Domenico Ghirlandaio (1449–1494), executed in tempera on wood. One of Ghirlandaio's early works, it was probably painted at the same time as he painted the frescos in the church of San Gimignano. The identity of the man depicted in the painting is unknown. Portrait of a Man is in the permanent collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City. Painting: Domenico Ghirlandaio
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