A passing lane (North American English) or overtaking lane (British, Irish and Australian English) is the lane on a multi-lane highway or motorway closest to the center of the road (the central reservation). In some countries, lanes are described as being on the 'inside' or the 'outside' of a road - which one the passing lane is varies.
When Italian handyman Vincenzo Peruggia stole the Mona Lisa from the Louvre in 1911, he never could have guessed her absence would be the very thing that made her the most recognizable painting on the planet.
The Isleworth Mona Lisa, once belonged to a Jane Blaker, who lived with the art-collecting Davies sisters in Powys. It was bought by Ms Blaker's brother Hugh in 1913, who is best known as a picture advisor to the sisters. Mr Blaker was from Isleworth, West London â hence the name. He bought the picture from a grand collection in Somerset, where it had apparently hung on the walls for a century. After Blaker's death in 1936, the painting passed to his sister Jane who lived at Gregynog as the Davies sisters' companion.