Among the highlights will be Wang Keping's 1979 wooden sculpture of a man being strangled, "Chain, " and Yue Minjun's "Liberty Leading the People, " his 1995 nod to Eugene Delacroix's revolutionary tableaux from 1830.

WSJ: Swiss Collector Gives $163 Million in Art to Hong Kong

The peasants, who had a shrewder idea of how Mother Russia functioned, thought it more likely that this evidence of progress, if that was the correct name for it, was somehow related to the purchase, several months earlier, of the late and little lamented Lavrenti Pavlovich Beria's sprawling wooden dacha by a man identified only as the Oligarkh.

NPR: Excerpt: 'Legends'

Their eyes brightened momentarily, then the man gestured toward a wooden staircase that led to my bedroom.

BBC: Piecing together puzzles in Cambodia

During the day these checkpoints are lightly manned, sometimes by one young man armed with a wooden stick, or by a handful of young boys, their skinny limbs browned from the sun.

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He backed into the room, and the old man came up the three wooden steps.

NEWYORKER: Idols

Police recovered an array of weapons - including a baseball bat, aluminium bars with screws protruding and a wooden plank - and Ultra paraphernalia from the home of one man.

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It was a departure from the traditional wooden structure and was made of wrought iron, oak, and a man-made product, avonite.

BBC: Festival clear-up continues