The death of King Michael of Romania marks the end of an extraordinary personal link with the turbulent history of 20th-century central Europe.
Julia Peythe-Jones, the director of the gallery, said it was "tremendously exciting", adding: "What is so fantastic is that it is this extraordinary link of the two games, a Beijing-London axis.
"The Mexicans are immensely proud of their extraordinary links with Cornwall as so many of the descendents of the original miners live in Mexico - people with wonderful names such as Enrique Pengelly and Raoul Pascoe," he said, speaking through interpreter Bridget Galsworthy Estavillo.
Anna led an extraordinary life.
And in what experts call an extraordinary step toward linking Mexicans north and south of the Rio Grande, three Mexicans living in the United States are running for seats in Mexico's Congress.
One Congress leader claims that, fighting the incumbency handicap, three wins out of four would constitute an "extraordinary" success".The weak link in the chain", in his words, is Madhya Pradesh.
But her memories of him, their conversations and the few souvenirs she has of his time as a teenage soldier in the muddy horror of the western front provide an extraordinary, fragile and precious link with the great war.
That happened in Alabama, where Jefferson County linked an extraordinary number of derivatives, called interest-rate swaps, to its bonds, in some cases with the help of CDR Financial.
The risks posed by investigations into the human genome come from 19th century notions of eternal progress through science, this time linked to an extraordinary power to change inheritance through the reordering of DNA.
It is a fitting mid-afternoon concert to find in Oryol, a Russian provincial town which prides itself on its cultural heritage, and its links to an extraordinary number of Russian authors.
And such stories are also, again, about how ordinary people link themselves into an extraordinary event which has changed the collective consciousness for a period of time.
