The big surprise of the night was Women of Algiers, which had fetched $12m before the sale.
Some of the fishing fleets causing the greatest concern are those hunting Patagonian toothfish, worth up to $7,000 a tonne, and southern bluefin tuna, single specimens of which have fetched $100,000 in Japan.
Artfact Analysis: Collectors have a voracious appetite for Bouguereau's portraits of peasant girls and doe-eyed children, which have fetched up to $3.5 million.
Long known for its hockey and beer, Canada has been proving its mettle in recent years as a global energy superpower, with abundant reserves of oil, natural gas and coal, which have fetched historically-high prices since 2003.
Mr. Dario also sold a former BP Amoco gas station at 243 Meeker Avenue in Brooklyn for $1.2 million in 2004, when it might have gone for about $400,000 as a gas station, and a Sunoco gas station at 1729 Stillwell Avenue in Brooklyn last fall for $3.2 million, which might have fetched about $1.1 million as a gas station.
We met children hauling heavy yellow water containers and green propane tanks, which they had fetched at the base of the mountain and were carrying back to their homes.
A putting lesson with Woods has fetched $155,000.
They have bigger homes, for a start – like the Château Louis XIV, which has just fetched €275m (£200m) in what is thought to be the world's most expensive house sale.
The category 'General Information' hosts information like the gene name, Ensembl gene ID, gene type, gene status, Ensembl transcript ID, transcript name, transcript type, transcript status, chromosome, strand and genomic loci, all of which have been fetched from Gencode release 12 (http://www.gencodegenes.org) (34).
In the game, which has the fetching name Blickets, players try to figure out what it is that makes an otherwise undistinguished clay figure a blicket.
