Hi there, it's time for another episode of News Bites!
I'm Nancy Sun…
And I'm Hope Ngo.
In today's news:
3-star inflight meals, a t-rex skeleton for a bargain, and a different Cleopatra.
All that and more, coming up next.
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空中吃米其林三星餐點
3-star Michelin Meals on Your Flight
Do you like the food on airplanes?
Airline food is pre-cooked.
It gets heated up on the planes.
Some people feel like this food is just like microwaved food.
But some people like airplane food.
And there is even a list of the airlines that serve the best food.
Now, a Taiwan airline is working with a famous restaurant.
China Airlines invited Le Palais to make some food for flights.
Le Palais (頤宮中餐廳) is a restaurant that has gotten three Michelin stars for many years.
This will be the first time that food from a 3-star Michelin restaurant in Taiwan is available on a plane.
The special meals will be served on long-haul (長途) flights to Europe, the U.S. or Canada.
The meals are available for all passengers, not just for First and Business class.
Other airlines have also worked with famous restaurants before.
這不是台灣航空公司第一次與著名餐廳業者合作。
EVA Airlines has been working with Ding Tai Fung to provide food on flights.
The COVID-19 pandemic has been hard on the airline industry.
Now, major airlines are looking for ways to bring back customers.
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瑞士拍賣會賣出暴龍骨架
T-Rex Skeleton Sold at Auction
An auction (拍賣會) is a place where things are sold to the person that offers the most money.
Sometimes, rare things are sold at auctions.
You can find many different things at an auction…
The cup of a Chinese emperor, a painting of Picasso, a dinner with a celebrity, or even dinosaur bones.
And that's what happened in Zurich, Switzerland.
A T-Rex skeleton was sold for about $6 million US dollars at an auction there.
The skeleton was put together from three different T-Rexes.
Bones of these three dinosaurs were found between 2008 and 2023 in the US.
And not all the bones in the skeleton are real.
Some were made from plaster (石膏) and epoxy resin (環氧樹脂) casts.
But it's still a complete skeleton.
這隻由近300件骨頭化石拼成的暴龍標本，以約1億6338萬台幣拍出。
This is the 3rd time worldwide that an entire T-Rex skeleton was offered at auction.
The 1st time, a T-Rex skeleton was sold for $8.4 million US dollars in 1998.
The second time, a T-Rex skeleton was sold for $31 million in 2020.
So $6 million for this third T-Rex skeleton was less than expected.
It sounds kind of amazing to have a dinosaur skull.
But you'd better make sure your house is big enough for the skull to fit!
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Netflix【埃及艷后】傳出爭議
Netflix "Cleopatra" Causes Controversy
When people mention Egypt, they think of many things.
The pyramids, the sphinx (人面獅身像), mummies and of course, the famous queen Cleopatra.
Queen Cleopatra was the last ruler of Egypt, before the Roman conquest (征服) of 30 BC.
The famous queen was part of the last dynasty of Egypt.
Netflix recently released a docudrama trailer (劇情式紀錄片的預告片).
The trailer depicts (描述) the queen as a black African.
這件事情在埃及引起非常大的爭議。
Historians have debated (爭論) Cleopatra's bloodline for a long time.
Some believe she was Greek.
Some believe she was Roman.
Some have said she might have been part African.
Now, an Egyptian lawyer has filed a complaint against Netflix.
He says Netflix should not air the show.
But the people who made the show say no one is certain about Cleopatra's heritage.
They say no one has ever found Cleopatra's tomb.
So there is no way to prove her heritage.
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So, in today's News Bites:
China Airlines invited Le Palais to make some food for flights.
This will be the first time that food from a 3-star Michelin restaurant in Taiwan is available on an plane.
The COVID-19 pandemic has been hard on the airline industry, and airlines are looking for ways to bring back customers.
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A T-Rex skeleton was sold for about $6 million US dollars at an auction in Switzerland.
That's a lower price than expected.
The skeleton was put together from 3 different T-Rexes.
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And,
Netflix recently released a trailer for a show about Egypt's Queen Cleopatra.
The trailer depicts the queen as a black African.
Some people in Egypt believe Cleopatra was not African, and Netflix should not air the show.
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And that's today's episode of News Bites!