From trophy wife to hedge fund to HENRY, 8 iconic phrases Fortune invented in our 95-year history BYRachel Ventresca February 4, 2025 at 7:00 PM GMT+8 FORTUNE Yes, Fortune is old. The “95-year-old startup” is technically a member of the Silent Generation, predating the invention ...
Jeff Goldblum plays poignant jazz piano solo ‘As Time Goes By’ at BAFTA film awards 10 most romantic movie scores of all time Did you know Jeff Goldblum is actually a world-class jazz pianist? Meet the man who invented the Nocturne – and no, it wasn’t Chopin......
JOSEPH BONANNO was a key figure in the transformation of the Mafia in New York, and then the wider United States, from a patchwork quilt of feuding Sicilian gangs into a closely structured enterprise that was an underworld state within the state. For 30 years he headed one of the five ...
Few used email in 1990, the internet browser hadn't been invented, and algorithms were best known, if at all, as the step-by-step procedures that had enabled Alan Turing's machine to break coded Nazi messages during World War II. The idea that these formulas might guide, or even help ...
One of the most fundamental concepts in the criminal justice system is that of recidivism, a formally incarcerated person’s relapse into criminal behavior. The rates vary from crime to crime, but the sad truth is that many murderers who were released from jail turned around and committed crime...
Who are the two founders of Google? When was this company established? The answers to these questions are diverse and interesting. Let’s discover who actually invented Google and when, as well as how it has turned into the largest and most important site on the internet. Dive in with us...
He invented the lightning rod, bifocals, the Franklin stove, a carriage odometer, and the glass 'armonica'. He facilitated many civic organizations, including a fire department and a university. BERNARD BERENSON - (1865-1959). American art historian specializing in the Renaissance. He was a ...
To study operant conditioning, he invented the operant conditioning chamber, also known as the Skinner Box, and to measure rate he invented the cumulative recorder. Using these tools, he and C. B. Ferster produced his most influential experimental work, which appeared in their book Schedules of...
‘Wheels on the Bus’ is a popularnursery rhyme, telling of the various aspects of a bus trip. From the ‘round and round’ turn of the wheels and ‘swish swish swish’ of the windscreen wipers, to the ‘beep beep beep’ of the horn, the song evokes for attentive children all the ...
[The board game] Risk was invented by French film director Albert Lamorisse and originally released in 1957 as La Conquête du Monde (The Conquest of the World) in France. It was bought by Parker Brothers and released in 1959 with some modifications to the rules as Risk: The Continental ...