Hundreds of couples gathered in Times Square in New York so as to repeat a kiss of sailor and nurse embedded at the stated area by a photographer Alfred Eisenstaedt on Victory over Japan Day. It is reported by Associated Press.
On the 14-th of August after counting down — «Five, four, three, two, one, kiss!» — lovers clung to each other with their lips repeating the posture of characters of the famous shot. The first couple which made out became veterans Ray and Ellie Williams who had got married after capitulation announcement made by Japan – that marked the end of the Second World War.
As Ray Williams said, he was very proud to represent his generation with the spouse. The pensioner also recalled about total jubilation on the 14-th of August, 1945. Moved from Amsterdam spouses Smulders participated in the event. «I think that this kiss is one of the most beautiful symbols of peach and love», a woman said.
Over kissing people seven-meter sculpture of spellbound in the kiss sailor and nurse lifted – they had not been known for donkey’s years despite the fact that their shot appeared in Life Magazine. In 1970-s it was recognized that nurse was Edith Sein (however, this fact is still being contradictory), and various veterans of the Second World War claim to be a sailor from the shot. Among them there is, particularly, Glenn McDuffie.
Near the volcano Mauna Loa in Hawaii, on the 17-th of September the scientists finished an investigation that imitated the Mars lifestyle for the participators.
The private British schools are going to make contributions up to ten thousand of free-of-charge places for education of children from the families with the low level of income.
The district court of Amsterdam ordered to return to Ukraine 500 showpieces from four museums of the Crimea famous as ‘Scythian gold’, as Reuters reported on Wednesday, on the 12-th of December.
According to the information provided by Guardian on the 6-th of December, the famous singer Lady Gaga visited the centre in New York where LGBT-youth reside who do not have a permanent accommodation.
The famous in the world artist Hailey King working under the trademark FLOX has created the design of Christmas baubles depicting flower with medical peculiarities manuka. With the help of sales FLOX intends to arrange December campaign on the collection of financial expenses for the support of hospices in New Zealand.
Classic works created by the famous British artist and children writer Quentin Blake as well as pictures painted by English rock-musician Erik Clapton, the composer of electronic music Brian Eno, and Scottish actor Peter Capaldi are put for the sales on the 7-th of December. The organizers of the stated event are planning to collect money for the further functioning of London gallery.
As it is reported by the edition France24, at the auction in Paris the most famous gun in the story of French literature has been sold. The poet Paul Verlain tried to shot his love partner using the stated weapon directing to bullet to another famous literature activist Arthur Rimbaud.
UNESCO has recognized as the heritage the songs performed by Cossacks within the territory where Dnepropetrovsk region is situated now. It is reported at the web-site of the international organization.
In Britain on Tuesday it was an auction where for the first time for almost a century the skeleton of an extinct bird dodo was sold. The organizers of the action count that the skeleton will charge an amount from 300 to 500 thousand pounds (370-620 thousand dollars).
Netherlandish authority will prepare a legislative act implying the legalization of assistance in voluntary leaving of this life for those who consider that ‘their lives have run their courses’, however, not compulsory is death sick.
The experts of World Economic forum (WEF) defined the safest countries in the world. The leader of the tanking where 141 states were included became Finland, as it is stated in the report of World Economic forum.
In the world every seven second the girl aged younger than fifteen years gets married, as it is stated in the report of charitable organization Save The Children.
The samples of saliva of 83 aboriginal Australians and 25 Papuans showed that they are the direct descendants of the first people who inhabited the green continent nearly 50 thousand years ago.
