Archeologists have found evidence of Egyptian perfumeries and beauty parlors dating to B.C. and makeup paraphernalia that dates to 6000 B. C. The ancient Egyptians preferred green eye shadow, which was topped with a glitter made from crushing the iridescent carapaces of certain beetles, kohl ...
First, grooming habits became a way for the elite to enforce their status. As bathing became widely available, new standards of scent made for lucrative business opportunities.
The former was invented by Alan Turing, a British Mathematician, and is a machine that takes information in, then processes it, and outputs new information. The latter invention, which is the internet, allows people to access almost any information located anywhere in the world at any time. I...
To be sure, the idea was not exactly new; Plato had invented it two millennia before by stating that democracy, in fact, was not a form of government but the way of life of those “free” Athenians who cared for nothing except their individual pleasure. The modern antidemocrats translated...
37. Japanese toilets– A toilet that warms my butt, cleans itself, sprays water, has perfume dispensers, and plays music? Going to the bathroom never sounded so fun. In fact, Japan even has a toilet museum! (It’s inTokyo) These toilets (technically called “washlets”), the first mod...
“Promise Me” perfume, plugged by Komen to fund their cause, contains known, potent carcinogens so dangerous, they are banned by the International Fragrance Association. Research “for the Cure” The first thing that pops into my mind when I think of a charity giant such as Komen fu...
Maybe you also know that it was Coco who introduced trousers for women and invented probably the most successful perfume in history – Chanel N.5. What you probably don’t know is that Coco Chanel was born in a poor family and her childhood was very sad and unhappy. ...
Alan Shugartinvented the floppy disk driveat IBM in 1967. Anyone who used these drives remembers that they initially used an 8-inch disk, which was called a diskette as it got smaller. Sony was the last to manufacture floppy disks,ceasing production in 2011. ...
Schneider invented his multipronged cake breaker, he had no notion of its destiny as a comb for Afro‐American hair. While bakers today use pie cutters to cut their angel food cakes, in its day, this tool took the cake. You may also like: What the world was like when your grandparents...
“i remember when it was brought up to me that i could have my own fragrance, i was like, ‘wait, i can do that?! like what are you talking about, really?’” says eilish, who released her first self-titled perfume in 2021 .“i really am just such an admirer of all things ...