Gaga is that very best of things: a selfinvented creature. Consider what she actually is: diminutive, dark-haired Italian-American Stefani Germanotta, born into one of the poshest bits of New York. For a while, her schoolmate was the heiress Paris Hilton. 形容GAGA最贴切的说法是:她是一个...
A father looking for a safer way for his son to play baseball without breaking the neighbor’s windows invented the light version of a baseball. Unsurprisingly, the adaptation was a hit. You may also like: American history from the year you were born 1953: Eartha Kitt’s 'Santa Baby' tak...
The animated genre can trace its roots to this epoch-making Disney film, in which Snow White enlists the help of seven idiosyncratic dwarves. Going way over budget, Walt Disney and his team invented the multiplane camera just for the project. Animation has come a long way in the time sinc...
First, a “no high heels” sign at the exhibit’s entrance. This is funny because in the Palais itself high heels were always forbidden because they could destroy the mosaic and wooden floors. And so they’re forbidden here as well. I think about 90% or more of the viewers were women....
1951: A new popular gift for children A new popular gift for children debuted in 1951. Acouple in New York City invented Colorforms, which allowed colorful vinyl shapes to be stuck and restuck on laminated boards. Colorforms were brought to the market in 1951 and rapidly became extremely po...
Whatever the case, it’s theorised that this trend caught on with the masses trying to emulate the fashion of the elite,similar to how high heels caught on among the masses (and women) after they were popularly worn by elite males. When the masses started wearing high heels, the eli...
There's no question that we love the Chrises – so much so, we inventedan entirely new holidayfor them. But have you ever stopped to wonderwhywe adore them so much? Where does this obsession come from? What does it say about them that we can't get enough of them – and what does...
"Back then phrases like work-life balance and flexible working hadn't been invented," she says. Not least in the male- dominated world of football, her turf for 20 years. "I took it as my personal responsibility to be able to juggle. I didn't want anybody to help me and I didn't...
“More likely these systems of control were IN PLACE LONG BEFORE WE SET [CONSCIOUS](sp) FOOT ON THIS REALM. In this way, the boundaries were laid in AT THE BEGINNING and so too, our laid in course for existence” I want to thank you, James, for explaining earlier about the culto-rel...
The damage that infidelity causes the aggrieved partner is one side of the story. For centuries, when affairs were tacitly condoned for men, this pain was overlooked, since it was mostly experienced by women. Contemporary culture, to its credit, is more compassionate toward the jilted. But if...