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This photo quickly went viral, was featured in news stories, and was adapted into Internet memes. He was unaware of the photo's cultural impact until after the ceremony, as his photos were automatically sent to his editors. He was profiled by multiple media outlets, including photography outlet PetaPixel.
News agencies, especially Reuters and the newly important Bloomberg News, convey both news stories for mass audiences and financial information of interest to businesses and investors. [186] [187] Bloomberg LP, a private company founded by Michael Bloomberg in 1981, made rapid advances with computerized stock market reporting updated in real time.
Woman wearing a red miniskirt. A miniskirt (sometimes hyphenated as mini-skirt, separated as mini skirt, or sometimes shortened to simply mini) is a skirt with its hemline well above the knees, generally at mid-thigh level, normally no longer than 10 cm (4 in) below the buttocks; [1] and a dress with such a hemline is called a minidress or a ...
Clive Wearing (born 11 May 1938) is a British former musicologist, conductor, tenor and pianist who developed chronic anterograde and retrograde amnesia in 1985. Since then, he has lacked the ability to form new memories and cannot recall aspects of his memories, frequently believing that he has only recently awoken from a comatose state.
Les Demoiselles d'Avignon ( The Young Ladies of Avignon, originally titled The Brothel of Avignon) [2] is a large oil painting created in 1907 by the Spanish artist Pablo Picasso. Part of the permanent collection of the Museum of Modern Art in New York, it portrays five nude female prostitutes in a brothel on Carrer d'Avinyó, a street in ...
1559708530 (Eng. trans. edition) Life and Death Are Wearing Me Out ( simplified Chinese: 生死疲劳; traditional Chinese: 生死疲勞; pinyin: shēngsǐ píláo) is a 2006 novel by Chinese writer Mo Yan, who won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2012. The book is a historical fiction exploring China's development during the latter half of ...
Milgram experiment. The experimenter (E) orders the teacher (T), the subject of the experiment, to give what the teacher (T) believes are painful electric shocks to a learner (L), who is actually an actor and confederate. The subject is led to believe that for each wrong answer, the learner was receiving actual electric shocks, though in ...
Elsa Schiaparelli ( / ˌskæpəˈrɛli, ˌʃæp -/ SKAP-ə-REL-ee, SHAP-, [1] [2] US also / skiˌɑːp -/ skee-AHP-, [3] [4] Italian: [ˈɛlsa skjapaˈrɛlli]; 10 September 1890 – 13 November 1973) was an Italian fashion designer from an aristocratic background. [5] She created the house of Schiaparelli in Paris in 1927, [6] which she managed ...