and questions of belief and consent—especially those involving abuse—are where pornhub’s current troubles began. the site, founded in 2007, became notorious for allegedly hosting revenge porn, in which nonconsensual intimate material is uploaded by former lovers, almost always men. for years, ...
The company he founded became part of ARCO Solar, which in turn became BP Solar, which became the largest solar energy company in the world. Northrup was a prolific inventor with 14 US patents. Age: 106 Birthplace: Houston, Texas Heraldo Muñoz Politician, Diplomat Heraldo Muñoz ...
He was named an NEA Jazz Master, a Kennedy Center Honoree, and founded the Frank Sinatra School of the Arts in New York. Bennett was also an activist, and joined Harry Belafonte and Martin Luther King Jr. in the Selma-to-Montgomery march in 1965. He also performed at a rally at the ...
Dr. Gulick, who designed the YMCA's triangle logo—Spirit, Mind, & Body, also founded, with his wife, Charlotte "Lottie" Emily Vetter, the Camp Fire Girls. Alluding to Book of Ecclesiastes, Dr. Gulick told Naismith: “There ...
Guitarist/vocalist Tom Verlaine – who co-founded and fronted post-punk progenitors Television –died at the age of 73, as confirmed by the band's official Twitter page on Jan. 28. Television quickly became one of the most influential and revered parts of the mid-70s CBGB scene alongside cu...
Randy Rhoads founded the first incarnation of Quiet Riot when he was just 16. The band became one of the most popular in Los Angeles clubs and eventually signed a record deal in the mid-’70s. Despite the initial hype, their first two albums were only released in Japan. Rhoads departed ...
astronomy. This fascination with the universe inspired him to study engineering physics, which led him to intern at a robotics lab at Laval University, where he found his calling. Alongside Vincent Duchaine and Jean-Philippe Jobin, Samuel co-founded Robotiq, aiming to transform the robotics ...
Founded in 2014, the Morbid Anatomy Museum is a non-profit with a dark dance card of events and lecture series that are often sold out. The idea for this popular space grew out of the Morbid Anatomy Library, a cabinet of curiosities created by Joanna Ebenstein’sblog. Situated near the ...
It was time to get off my ass and start doing something for myself. I had been living a somewhat hermit-like lifestyle now for the past 10 months wondering where all my drive to do things had gone. I was dumbfounded with my lack of motivation in trying anything new. Hadn’t I, wh...
Vincent's Hospital, where Irish patients predominated; the Dominican Sisters, originally from Germany, founded St. Catherine's in Brooklyn; an Italian immigrant sister established Columbus Hospital in Manhattan for the Italian population; and sisters from Quebec developed Misericordia Hospital. Indeed, ...