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...]
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...]
The last two Thanksgiving turkeys pardoned by Barack Obama in his White House mandate
The American President Barack Obama, pardoned the last two Thanksgiving turkeys from his mandate, on Wednesday, during the traditional ceremony, which takes place every year at the White House, informs the CNN. Along with Barack Obama, at the Rose Garden were two nephews, Aaron and Austin Robinson, the sons of Michelle Obama's brother, Craig Robinson, under the conditions in … [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...]
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...]
A satellite of last generation was launched by NASA to improve the weather forecast
NASA launched on Saturday, the first in a series of four geostationary meteorological satellites of the latest generation, with the capability of observing, in almost real-time, of the lightning storms over the American continent and which allows a considerable improvement of the weather forecast, informs the AFP. The satellite, called GOES-R, will provide images with the … [Read more...]
Vera Wang and Hugo Boss, the main absences of the Fashion Week 2017 from New York
The pret-a-porter brands Vera Wang and Hugo Boss announced that they will not take part in the Fashion Week from New York, in February next year, this being a new proof of the problems currently affecting this sector, reports the AFP. In order to justify their missing, the Hugo Boss group stated that it wants to maintain the accent on the man line of its pret-a-porter brand, on … [Read more...]