- Fun for the killing of Bin Laden: coloring books are designed to stimulate children's creativity, but the new "I will never forget 9 / 11: Kids' Book of Freedom" channel that impulse in a shocking way. Published by really big coloring books Inc.and designed as a "learning tool" to help teachers explain the terrorist attacks, the book has a page showing SEAL firing a shot straight into Bin Laden, who is shown (incorrectly as it turned out) by using women as human shields - a more or less challenging tot artists to meet and spraying blood.

In November 2007, Jeff Koons 's "Hanging Heart (Magenta/Gold)" sold for $23.6 million at Sotheby's New York, setting a world auction record for a work by a living artist. In June of the following year, another refulgent sculpture from Koons's iconic "Celebration Series," the similarly candy-colored "Balloon Flower (Magenta)," surpassed that price, fetching $25.7 million in a Christie's showroom. Just months later, Lehman Brothers filed for bankruptcy, most national economies slipped into recession, and the art-market fell into a steep decline. Now, only a little more than two years after the last historic sale, another "Balloon Flower," a blue one this time, is set to hit the block at Christie's New York on November 10, carrying a $12-16 million estimate . Needless to say, its performance that night will be avidly watched as a gauge of the uppermost echelon of today's art market. "I don't think that anyone thinks that the boom times are back," said Brett Gorvy, Christie's deputy chairman and international co-head of postwar and contemporary art. "But the market is very strong for certain important works of art, and it's a global market that is not really reliant on one particular buying sector." The confident seller behind the lot is the Daimler Art Collection, a 33-year-old division of the German automobile company Daimler AG, which owns more than 1,800 works, including particularly strong holdings in Minimalist art. (The previous two high-flying Koonses were put up for auction by the collectors Adam Lindemann and Howard Rachofsky, respectively.

2008
Grammy Hall Of Fame: (California, USA)
It was announced on December 19, 2007 that both Michael's 'Off the Wall' and 'Thriller' albums will be among the 2008 inductees into the Grammy Hall of Fame.

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A: I did not know before! WOW!
SUPER! Almost every year ... !