Emma Thompson announces Tom Hanks winning the Oscar® for Actor in a Leading role for his performance in "Philadelphia." - 66th Annual Academy Awards® in 1994. He portrays a victim of AIDS dealing with the disease as well as the stygma involved with HIV/AIDS and the spread among the gay community in

Same-sex marriage became legal nationwide in the Netherlands (2001), Belgium (2003), Spain (2005), Canada (2005), South Africa (2006), Norway (2009), Sweden (2009), Portugal (2010), Iceland (2010), Argentina (2010), Denmark (2012), Brazil (2013), France (2013), Uruguay (2013), New Zealand (2013), th...

A promo for the Danish TV network TV2 released on the same day that Donald Trump’s Muslim travel ban went into effect is going viral because of its incredibly touching message about diversity. “All That We Share” illustrates the common qualities we share as humans despite the various boxes society t

The Christo and Jeanne-Claude team are creating L’Arc de Triomphe, Wrapped as artist Christo wished this project to be continued after his death.
On view for 16 days from Saturday, September 18th to Sunday, October 3rd, 2021 L’Arc de Triomphe, Wrapped will use 25,000 square meters of recyclable pol

Dante and Virgil in Hell (1850) by William-Adolphe Bouguereau is housed at the Musée d’Orsay in Paris, France. Dante and Virgil in Hell (1850) by William-Adolphe Bouguereau was inspired by the poem, The Divine Comedy (c. 1308 – 1321) by the Italian Dante Alighieri, specifically from the part titled

Issachar Ber Ryback (2 February 1897, in Yelisavetgrad, Russian Empire (today Kropyvnytskyi, Ukraine) – December 22, 1935, in Paris) was a Jewish-Ukrainian-French painter. Rybak was a contemporary of Jewish-Russian artists Natan Issajewitsch Altman, Boris Aronson and Marc Chagall, who transmitted th

Robert Manson is a New Zealand rower. Manson was born in 1989. He is from a family of rowers, with his father Greg the singles lightweight national champion in 1985, and his brother Karl also competing internationally. He won a bronze medal at the 2015 World Rowing Championships.

Same-sex marriage is legally recognized nationwide in Argentina, Belgium, Canada, Denmark, Iceland, the Netherlands, Norway, Portugal, South Africa, Spain, Sweden and Brazil. New Zealand's parliament expanded the definition of marriage to include same sex marriage on April 17, 2013, increasing the n...

Same-sex marriage became legal nationwide in the Netherlands (2001), Belgium (2003), Spain (2005), Canada (2005), South Africa (2006), Norway (2009), Sweden (2009), Portugal (2010), Iceland (2010), Argentina (2010), Denmark (2012), Brazil (2013), France (2013), Uruguay (2013), New Zealand (2013), th...

What can you accomplish in 360 hours? The Chinese Sustainable building company, Broad Group, has yet attempted another impossible feat, building a 30-story tower hotel in 15 days.