Strange But True Part 65

1. In 2009, after watching the 1999 movie "Stuart Little" with his young daughter, Hungarian art historian Gergely Barki noticed a famous "lost" Robert Bereny painting hanging in the background. A set designer had purchased it for $500, and after this discovery, "Sleeping Lady with Black Vase" went to auction where it sold for $285,700. The original 1927-1928 painting was sold in 1928 and disappeared during World War II. Do you find it interesting how this painting was discovered after all those years?

2. Montana is the only state in the U.S., and shares this distinction with only a handful of other countries (Japan, Ghana, and The Gambia), where both spouses can be absent from a marriage ceremony for the marriage to be legal. Known as a "double proxy marriage", this unusual arrangement allows for stand-ins to legally take vows on behalf of the couple, a practice that originated for soldiers and others unable to attend their own ceremonies. It is still, however, in effect today. Do you know anyone who was married in a "double proxy marriage"?