Long-lost Fabergé egg surfaces, and more

Long-lost Fabergé egg surfaces

An unnamed scrap metal dealer from the Midwest made the find of a lifetime when the golden bauble he purchased for $14,000 turned out to be a long-lost Fabergé egg worth an estimated $33 million. The orb was originally made for Russian Czar Alexander III, who gave it to his wife, Maria Feodorovna, as an Easter gift in 1887. After the Bolshevik Revolution in 1917, the egg was spirited away to the U.S., where it disappeared for decades. The egg’s survival “is nothing but wonderment and miracle,” said Kieran McCarthy, an antiques expert who helped confirm the egg’s provenance.

With bionic leg, dancer returns to stage

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A professional dancer who lost a limb in the Boston Marathon bombings is back doing the rumba again, thanks to a bionic leg. Adrianne Haslet-Davis took to the stage at a TED conference, pirouetting in public for the first time since the attack took her left leg at midcalf. Her artificial limb, created by MIT engineer Hugh Herr, is the first prosthetic specifically designed to provide the “natural levels of power” and intricate movement that dance requires. “The feeling is priceless,” said Haslet-Davis. “It took me a long time to even listen to music after the marathon. To dance again is incredible.”

California teens cut class and save 94-year-old

Three California teens are now heroes—thanks to cutting class. Garen Kissoyan, Peter Kravariotis, and Kirill Yantikov, seniors at California High School in San Ramon, had just left campus when they noticed smoke coming from a nearby house. After being alerted by the homeowner that her 94-year-old mother was still inside, the boys rushed into the house, where they found the nearly unconscious woman sitting in a chair, coughing and covered in soot. They rescued both her and her dog. “She would have been gone in a minute and a half more,” a neighbor said.