[01:25.44]organizers of the 2024 Olympics [01:29.28]created Art Deco posters last year [01:32.76]to celebrate the games [01:34.88]and mark the one hundred years [01:37.36]since the 1924 Olympics, [01:40.28]which Pa...
Paris 2024 succeeded in making the Olympics cool again, a mega sporting event that became a cultural moment in time. As theEvening Standardwrote, the Olympics were “inarguably cool. They felt young and vibrant and joyful.” But they also changed perceptions of Paris, from a city that even...
The marathon may have ancient roots, but the foot race’s official length of 26.2 miles wasn’t established until the 20th century. The first organized marathon was run in Athens at the 1896 Olympics, the start of the Games’ modern era. The ancient games, which took place in Greece from...
then walk south past a mile-long stretch of slumping gray city blocks to the far edge of the island, near the Hackensack River, where the Sopranos dump dead bodies, you’ll come upon a 12-foot statue looming beneath the Pulaski Skyway. In the lot behind Bunyan is a marijuan...
“Their powerful silent protest in the 1968 Games was controversial, but it woke folks up and created greater opportunity for those that followed,” Obama said of Smith and Carlos, who were asked to become U.S. Olympic Committee ambassadors in 2016. Their gesture is considered one of the mos...
but since the land was still altogether heathen and the people retained their pagan practices, Haakon hid his Christianity to receive the help of the “great chieftains.” In time, Haakon had a law passed establishing that Yule celebrations were to take place at the same time as the Christians...
2. The OG Creators While the people who once ruled YouTube are at different places today, their contribution plays a crucial role in the development of this platform. Videos such as “Charlie Bit My Finger” or “Evolution of Dance” were viral factors in the early days of YouTube. ...
According to Benson, Adidas' Olympics ads were loud and proud, but not overly attention-grabbing or corporate Two distinctive graphic devices lie at the core of the Adidas brand: the trefoil of Originals, and the three stripes of the Sports division. "It also received the most positive uptak...
What is it like to have millions of people who only know you as the 23-year-old young man you were whenOutKast'sAqueminicreated a whole new lane in hip-hop, as opposed to the 49-year-old man you are, who’s more into sharing stages with alums ofYusef Lateef’s jazz bands th...
t have enough space for a proper tennis court at his Acapulco home, and it rose in popularity during the COVID-19 pandemic, when no-contact sports were the safest. Necessity is also often an impetus: Modern surfskating began inCaliforniain 1995, because, with no ability to control ocean ...