Today on June 1 it is the 76th anniversary of one of the most famous superheroes on the planet - Superman.
Years ago that day the international community was
presented with a comic book about a man with superhuman abilities. The
publication won popularity in a wink. The price of first Superman was only 10
cents and it was swept off the shelves in a matter of seconds.
In 2011 the first copy was sold at auction for $ 2.16
million, it is the most expensive comic book ever.
Superman became a real phenomenon in American pop
culture: it encouraged countless editions of books, television series and
feature movies. The first movie came out in 1948. From 1978 to 1987 was released
the famous trilogy with actor Christopher Reeve in the title role. And in 2006 came
out Superman Returns where part of
Superman was played by Brandon Routh.
On May 16, 1763 in one of the bookstores in London, well-known literary critic, author of the landmark Dictionary of the English Language Samuel Johnson and James Boswell met. As a result one the greatest biographies ever written was born, and the world got another holiday - International Biographer's Day.
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.
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.
On the 7-th of December in international mass media the information appeared claiming that Nobel laureate Gabriel Garcia Marquez sent the manuscripts of his own books to the approval of Fidel Castro.
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).
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.
On July 14 France celebrates the French National Day which commemorates the beginning of the French Revolution with the storming of the Bastille fortress.
The remains of Columbian laureate of Nobel Prize for literature Gabriel Garcia Marquez were buried in the repository of University of Cartagena. They had been moved from Mexico where the writer died two years ago at the age of 87.
The house where the parts of acts from the first part of movie about a little magician Harry Potter started shooting will be opened for the public for the first time.
