A handwritten poem by Anne Frank written shortly before the teenager hidden with her family in Amsterdam was sold Wednesday to auction for 140,000 euros, the initial price being of 30,000 euros, according to the AFP. The 2390 lot, signed 'In the memory of Anna Frank', was purchased by a buyer, online, after two minutes of the auction. The auction happened in a stirring … [Read more...]
Twitter suspended the account of its founder, Jack Dorsey
The social network Twitter suspended for a short time, on Tuesday night, the account of its owner and founder , Jack Dorsey, who invoked 'an internal error', reports the AFP. For about fifteen minutes, the users who attempted to access the jack's tweets, the user name of Jack Dorsey, saw a message that specifies that this account has been suspended. Contacted by the AFP to … [Read more...]
‘Toni Erdmann’ film is the winner of the Lux Prize offered by the European Parliament
The comedy 'Tony Erdmann', a German - Austrian - Romanian production, win the Lux Prize offered by the European Parliament in order to promote the distribution of the European films in the European Union. 'Toni Erdmann', directed by Maren Ade from Germany, enjoyed an unexpectedly success in several countries, after having made sensation to the last edition of the Cannes … [Read more...]
Barack Obama offered the Presidential Medal of Freedom to celebrities from movies, TV, science and sports
The American president Barack Obama, offered on Tuesday at the White House, the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the highest civil distinction granted in the USA, to a group of 21 personalities among which are: Robert De Niro, Robert Redford, Bill and Melinda Gates, Michael Jordan, Ellen DeGeneres and Bruce Springsteen. Obama presented the prestigious title to the Microsoft … [Read more...]
Alicia Silverstone poses nude for a PETA campaign against the wool clothes
The actress Alicia Silverstone posed nude in the new campaign of PETA against the clothes made of wool, writes the UPI.com. 'I’d rather go naked than wear wool', according to the message in the advertising campaign, which will be promoted soon in the vicinity of Times Square in New York City. The star from Clueless (1995) appears in the respective poster photographed from her … [Read more...]
A Dodo bird skeleton was sold for 280.000 pounds to an auction
An almost complete skeleton belonging to an exemplar of the dodo bird species, entirely disappeared from Earth, was put, Tuesday, in an auction at the Summers Place Auctions in West Sussex, the Great Britain. The skeleton was reconstructed in proportion of 95%, with carefulness, by a man who started to buy the bones from private collections and from auctions from the '70s, … [Read more...]
Kanye West was hospitalized by emergency for a psychiatric evaluation
The American rapper Kanye West was hospitalized on Monday, 'by emergency', after the announcement of the cancellation of 21 concerts of his North American tour and at two days after a new controversy started by the singer, directed in particular against the pop star Beyoncé, informs the AFP. Kanye West, 39 years old, is in a clinic in Los Angeles and TMZ announces that the … [Read more...]
A portrait of the last Russia’s czar, hidden on the back of a Lenin’s painting, will be exhibited
A portrait of the last Russian czar, Nicholas II, remained hidden for almost a century on the back of a painting of Lenin and accidentally discovered, will be exposed to Sankt Petersburg, declared the restaurateurs, quoted by the AFP. 'The Czar's portrait painted by Ilya Galkin in 1896 remained hidden for 90 years on the back of another portrait, of Lenin's, made in 1924 by the … [Read more...]