Wisdom is life

                                            TOP TEN WAYS TO IMPROVE YOUR MEMORIES The strength of your memory depends upon the way in which you memorize rather than upon how much it is used. What you want to do is to learn the best ways of memorizing. After you have learned these, follow them rigorously until you have them ingrained as habitual ways of memorizing that you use without thought or effort. Memory itself, probably, cchapter. The strength of your memory depends upon the way in which you memorize rather than upon how much it is used. What you want to do is to learn the best ways of memorizing. After you have learned these, follow them rigorously until you have them ingrained as habitual ways of memorizing that you use without thought or effort. Memory itself, probably, cannot be improved. We are limited by our natural gifts, but the ways in which we memorize c...

Leonardo da Vinci's portrait of Christ which once sold for just $60 sells for a record breaking $450.3 million at New York auction Leonardo da Vinci's long lost portrait of Christ 'Salvator Mundi' has sold for a record-smashing $450.3 million (£342million) at Christie's in New York - more than double the old mark for any work of art at auction. The painting, which once sold for just $60 (£45) at auction because experts thought it was by one of his students, fetched more than four times over the Christie's pre-sale estimate of about $100million (£76million) last night. 'Salvator Mundi' - Italian for 'Savior of the World' - was purchased by an unidentified buyer bidding via telephone after a protracted bidding war that stretched to nearly 20 minutes at the New York auction house. It was more than twice the old auction record set by Pablo Picasso's painting 'Women of Algiers (Version O)' ('Les Femmes D'Alger) which s...