JR(Jean Rene) is a street artist famous for large art displays. This past week, JR turned the Pont Neuf, the oldest bridge(1607) in the city of Paris into a giant cave! Using fabric to create the illusion of mountains, visitors walked through the"cave"to go from one end of the bridge to the other. Additionally, a musician created sounds including rumbles and echoes and a perfume company created a specific scent(Odeore Scola) to mimic the odor found inside a cave. Special glasses enabled people to see people and animals on the walls of the cave. and Photograph News for Kids and WSIS

At a fort near Hadrian's Wall in Great Britain, archaeologist have found what are believed to be the world's oldest shower shoes! Ancient Romans, who built the fort, called Vindolanda,wanted to protect their feet while walking on the hot shower floors and started the idea of wearing clog footwear. Wearing bath shoes also gave protection from slippery floors that could cause falls. The slip-in platform shoes, about 50 of them, are believed to date back to about 140-180 AD. Older shoes have been found, especially ancient Egyptian sandals, dating back 3300 BC, but these Roman shoes are the oldest shoes to wear in the shower!

Photograph from Livescience

There was a line of climbers making it to the summit of Mount Everest, the highest mountain on the planet. On May 20th, 275 mountain climbers reached the top of the mountain, 29,029 feet above sea level. That was a one day record for climbing from the Nepal side! On May 29th, 1953, Sir Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay became the first to summit the "top of the world".The pair stayed for 15 minutes at the summit, gave each other a big hug. Hillary left a cross and Norgay left some chocolates for the gods of the mountain. Hillary took a photograph of Norgay but did not wish to have a photograph taken. For years, the two kept a secret as to which was the first to summit but the secret was unveiled in Norgay's book. It was Hillary.

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Leonardo da Vinci's famous Renaissance painting will soon be getting her own wing at the Louvre Museum in Paris, France. The wing will be pretty large, too, more than 33,000 sq. feet of space. The reason for the move of the Mona Lisa is that she is such a popular painting to view by visitors coming to the museum each year. It gets very crowded to get a glimpse of her. People wait hours in line to see the Mona Lisa with an estimated 20,000 people coming each day! Did you know that da Vinci's Mona Lisa doesn't have any eyebrows? That was because a custom during the time was for wealthy women to shave their eyebrows. The Mona Lisa has had some problems over the years. A rock was thrown at in 1956 and someone hit it with a teacup in 2009. In 2022, someone caked the painting and two years later someone tried to splash the Mona Lisa with soup! The Mona Lisa was actually stolen from the Louvre in 1911 but was recovered two years later. Painted in 1503-1506, da Vinci's Mona Lisa is estimated to be worth over 1 billion dollars!

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Found covered in concrete, in a town in Utah, a young great horned owl was given a feather transplant! The owl did not molted, lose its feathers as usually happened naturally. Wildlife people used the feathers from a similar sized great horned owl that had died and glued them to the other owl's right wing after organizing the feathers and clipping where necessary so they would fit just right. After making sure the owl could achieve "silent flight" with its new feathers, it was released into the wild. Eventually, the replacement feathers will molt and the owl will replace them on his own.

Photograph from Best Friends Animal Society(Molly Wald)

A new dinosaur was discovered in the country of Thailand. It is a whopper in size. Thought to tip the scales at 27 tons (think NINE large elephants), the long necked herbivore measured about 88 feet in length. Named after a mythological serpent type creature, the Nagatitan chaiyaphumensis is believed to be the largest dinosaur to roam Southeast Asia. A leg bone was the size of an adult human male( 6 ft) and additional remains including pelvis, rib, spine helped to estimate its amazing size when it roamed the Earth. Paleontologists say this "last titan",as it is also being called, was largest than the TRex.

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Been to the dentist recently? Seems that dentistry has been around a LONG time. Archaeologist found teeth dating back 60,000 years that have evidence of dental surgery!