Wednesday Linkage

I got nothing other than another pretty day.

Picasso Sells at Auction for $106.5 Million, a Record for a Work of Art

Churchgoers forced to pay to pray

Louis-Dreyfus' Walk of Fame star had typo

Adult gestures prompt kid's wrong answers

New York Times: Black Hopefuls Pick This Year in G.O.P. Races
Among the many reverberations of President Obama’s election, here is one he probably never anticipated: at least 32 African-Americans are running for Congress this year as Republicans, the biggest surge since Reconstruction, according to party officials. The House has not had a black Republican since 2003, when J. C. Watts of Oklahoma left after eight years.

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Archaeologists in Egypt find Ptolemaic king statue

Bumpology: The science of pregnancy

BBC to project real-time election results on Big Ben's tower

USA Today: Inmates aid Nashville in 'incredible effort'
When the flood-beleaguered people of Nashville open kitchen faucets and get fresh water today, they might want to raise their glasses in a toast to some men behind bars. Without a Herculean effort by 400 Davidson County inmates on Monday, Nashville's lone working water treatment plant most likely would have been overrun with muddy overflow from the Cumberland River. "It was an incredible effort," Nashville Mayor Karl Dean said of the rush to bag 500 tons of sand on the grounds of a county jail and then transport it to form a wall around the Omohundro Water Treatment Plant.