The James Bond movies relentlessly update the character and his world with the cold war dissolving into the war on terror, new actors taking over the role, the gadgets and gizmos becoming ever grander, the tech ever higher, the tropes and traps more topical. The villains use parkour and...
So Hollywood has invented new James Bond stories... In many ways, Bond has changed a lot since the early days. To start with, several different actors have played the part of Bond, most notably Sean Connery, Roger Moore and today’s Daniel Craig; but over the years, Bond movies have ...
Who Invented the Slurpee? James P. asks: Who invented the slurpee? The Slurpee was invented as a commercial product more or less by accident by a Dairy Queen franchisee Omar Knedlik in Kansas City in the late 1950s. Born in 1915 and having grown up relatively poor, after WWII Knedlik use...
Charles Babbage - The Man who invented the Computer► For vocabulary guide, see below.WHO invented the first computer? And when?The answer will surprise you: it was Charles Babbage, in the year 1832. Babbage, who was born in London in 1791, was a great mathematical genius. He was a ...
The lead vocalist of Toots and the Maytals literally invented reggae, or at least gave it its name. Specifically, the genre took its name from his song “Do the Reggay,” the reggay then being the name of a dance craze in Jamaica; the word subsequently came to be applied to the nascent...
According to The New Yorker, "Interior Design as a profession was invented by Elsie de Wolfe." During her married life, the press usually referred to her as Lady Mendl. She was born in New York and died in Versailles, France. ELVIS PRESLEY - (1937-1977). American singer, musician and ...
James Webb Space Telescope (Image credit: NASA) This is the successor to Hubble, and its launch date has been delayed several times over the years, with the latest estimate now for Dec 18, 2021. Unlike Hubble, this telescope will be parked far from Earth and out of reach of repair crews...
To increase interactivity, in 1964 Dr. Bitzer, along with a fellow professor, H. Gene Slottow, and a graduate student, Robert Willson, invented a plasma display illuminated by gas-infused pixels — the same technology that would later power flat-screen televisions. ...
Weisz remarried to James Bond actor Daniel Craig, and Aronofsky began a relationship with another screen siren he met while directing mother!, Jennifer Lawrence. Also ranks #5 on The Hottest Actresses Who Can Actually Act Also ranks #7 on The 85+ Best British Actresses Working Today ...
At home, Charlotte and her siblings invented games and stories and wandered the moors of their Yorkshire landscape. Their father helped with their education, providing them with inspiring reading material and with the idea that they could be English literature writers. The most well-known novel ...