Just a brief break from our usual programming. Yesterday I had to put down my cat "Winston". Just shy of 14 years old the little fella's kidney's finally gave out after a long battle with diabetes, kidney disease, and pancreatitis, that featured a surprisingly quick ending (in exactly one week he went from playing and being himself to complete kidney failure). Now, I am posting this in part because sometimes I think we forget that the blogs we follow feature real people behind them, but there is also another reason more germane to the topics normally found on this website.

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German police have recently recovered 1,500 mostly modernist works of art - including from artists such as Picasso, Chagall, and Matisse. The entire haul, estimated to be worth over €1 Billion, was discovered in the flat of a Munich resident late last year.

The art was originally confiscated by the Nazi's during the 1930's and 1940's. From there it ended up in the hands of art collector Hildebrand Gurlitt who upon his death passed on the trove of great works to his son Cornelius.