Time has named a Person of the Year (originally it was called Man of the Year) every year since 1927, nearly a century ago. The magazine describes the title as not necessarily an honor or an award, but rather, says it picks based on a person's influence and importance in a given yea...
Since 1927,Timemagazine has chosen a man, woman, or idea that "for better or worse, has most influenced events in the preceding year." AlthoughTime'slist is not an academic or objective study of the past, the list gives a contemporary view of what was important during each year. In 202...
His last year at Alcatraz was spent in the prison hospital. The Capone who left Alcatraz in 1939 was a sickly, incoherent man who would live out his final 8 years in seclusion at his Florida mansion. He died of heart failure in 1947 at age 48. Getty Images Machine Gun Kelly Inmate No...
He was a slim, handsome man with slicked-back hair—in the photos, nearly always covered by a racing helmet. Some of the black-and-white photos include a little boy. In one of them, he sports an adorable peaked cap. “That’s me,” says Jürgen Barth. He flips through...
We delved deep into a huge range of automobiles to find the coolest cars of all time. These are the most beautiful classic and modern cars ever made.
Rolex, Omega, Patek Philippe, Cartier, Audemars Piguet, Jaeger-LeCoultre—of course, timepieces from these brands feature prominently on our list of the 50 greatest wristwatches of all time. But how does one narrow it down to 50 specific watches?
A year before the first English edition of Capital was published under his supervision in 1886, Engels issued a brief polemic against the pretensions of anyone reckless enough to think that this great work could be translated into English by a mere amateur man of letters. The target of the ...
22, 1944, the Allies’ air forces bombed the marshalling yards at La Chapelle. I took refuge in the basement of my building. But the din of the explosions was so bad that to this day I cannot abide the sound of fireworks. (Philippe Bouvard, quoted in theFigaromagazine, July 22, 2016...
Courtesy of Sundance Institute. 34. The Wedding Banquet (2025) Here comes the bride, and a new Wedding Banquet. Fire Island filmmaker Andrew Ahn re-teamed with Saturday Night Live’s Bowen Yang to remake Ang Lee’s fabulous 1993 wedding comedy, which centered on a closeted Taiwanese man in...
The endless river eastward flows; with its huge waves arc gone all those gallant heroes of bygone years. 二人同心,其利断金。 If two people are of the same mind, their sharpness can cut through metal. 富贵不能淫,贫贱不能移,威武不能曲,此之谓大丈夫。 It is a true great man whom no mo...