At least I will be able to visit the exhibition and count them myself: https://allthatsinteresting.com/bayeux-tapestry-penises
Bayeux Tapestry Will Return to the U.K. for the First Time in 950 Years
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#12It’s funny to consider the parallels between the tapestry’s return and the campaigns for repatriation of the British Museum’s many stolen artefacts
Temporary loans in exchange for other items on temporary loan (which is what this is), is legally the only way the British Museum can let material leave their collections.
I realise that there is a lot of meme-age worthy material that the British Museum is full of stolen property, but it's worth remembering that most of the items were donated at a time when legal provenance was virtually impossible to establish (particularly if you have to assume a peer of the realm like Elgin is an honest man, lest you find yourself under attack from the entire establishment), and the Museum is prevented by an Act of Parliament from giving items away regardless of later legal claims.
To return the Elgin/Parthenon Marbles to Greece, for example, requires a new Act, which - given the current government's legislative programme - is unlikely to happen in the next 3-4 years, and there's little appetite for it.
A temporary loan deal would be more realistic if both the British and Greek governments trusted each other to make the returns. That means the Greeks would basically need to loan out half the museum of Athens to make it work...
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#13It seems anyone involved in this in France are opposed to this except Macron. Although he has authority over them I'm not confident it will be moved there in the end.
Why would people be opposed to this? France loans some world-class exhibits to the UK, and the UK loans some world-class exhibits to France. Seems like a win-win? Who loses anything with this?
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#14The automatic headline rewriting is an absolute joke and it has not improved a title a single time ever.
Does HN auto re-write headlines using an LLM or something?
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#15Perhaps a prophecy of Britain conquering France again?
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#16Earlier quoted context omitted.
You realise it's just a temporary loan for an exhibition ?
This title is wrong about the when and misleading about the what. A masterpiece.
It is a bit weird, like the OP missed out "for the first time" after 'U.K.' but really the underlying article is there for the clicking, it's written at a level 12 year olds could read and it's a two minute read so the headline being a bit wonky is not going to lead to long term confusion.
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#17The automatic headline rewriting is an absolute joke and it has not improved a title a single time ever.
Does HN auto re-write headlines using an LLM or something?
No, a regular expression. Generative language models usually produce different kinds of error, and rarely fade into the background in the same way the automatic headline rewriting tool does (when it isn't rendering the titles incomprehensible, at least).
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#18> Bayeux Tapestry Will Return to the U.K. In 950 Years
Hilarious. I was hoping the title was actually accurate.
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#19Earlier quoted context omitted.
This title is wrong about the when and misleading about the what. A masterpiece.
It is a bit weird, like the OP missed out "for the first time" after 'U.K.' but really the underlying article is there for the clicking, it's written at a level 12 year olds could read and it's a two minute read so the headline being a bit wonky is not going to lead to long term confusion.
It's not the OP's fault.
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#20> Bayeux Tapestry Will Return to the U.K. In 950 Years Hilarious. I was hoping the title was actually accurate.
If the title were accurate, it'd be returned to the UK roughly 300 years after John Cage's Organ²/ASLSP finishes its last note. The Zeitpyramide, however, will not be completed yet, but be over 80% there