On May 20, 1895 the first-ever commercial movie performance took place in New York.
A four-minute filmed boxing match between Young Griffo and Charles Barnett was honoured of becoming the premiere of its kind, every visitor was charged 25 cents.
A new leisure enjoyed tremendous success. Over time, Europe took after America and commercial movie performances were held in Berlin and Paris. And after seven years, the world's first real movie theatre L. A. Electric Theatre opened in the States.
Today’s film distribution is a modern industry with a billion profits. Residents of large cities watch movies not only in 3D, but in 4D, 5D, and even 8D. And the Australian forward-thinking scientists created a prototype of interactive cinema. The creators claim that the audience will be offered more than 20 short videos from which it will be possible to create a movie and to get inside the scene.
And Japanese inventors learned to inject the smell of each movie scene directly into cinema's seats. So, love shorts are accompanied by floral scent, tearful episodes smell of peppermint and rosemary mixture. In happy moments one can fill citrus odour, and anger is symbolized by herbal infusion interspersed with of eucalyptus and tea tree aromas.
International Day of chocolate is non-official holiday dedicated to the favorite delicacy of many people on the planet. It is always celebrated on the 13-th September annually. This holiday is the wonderful reason to take a piece of chocolate, even if you try cutting down on sweets.
On June 9 the International Friendship Day is observed. This is not an official holiday and it was introduced quite recently. However, it has a very noble goal to remind people how much their beloved ones mean for them, and to give a chance to spend an evening with them.
Since March 31, 1999 the vocabulary of every earnest cinema-fan includes the term matrix. Topics for philosophical discussions have increased after the legendary Andy and Lana Wachowski movie appearing on the screens.
«Let’s learn how to use paper efficiently!» —it is the key thesis of international «paper free» campaign which occurs on every fourth Thursday of October all over the world.
Worldwide in many countries an original holiday is celebrated – Tree-planting day (it is also known as Day of tree, Day of trees, Day of forest plantation).
Madeira Nature Festival is a new event arranged since October, 2011 which gives possibility to the participants of exultance to get familiar with natural wealth of archipelago Madeira. During celebration of festival guests will be offered to try different types of healthy and active rest on the ground, as well as in air and ocean.
On the desert coral-island Aldabra which forms part of Seychelles it is found seven species of Aldabra striped snail which has been considered as extinct since 2007, as it is reported by Russian service of BBC.
The ATOM Project is calling for an international moment of silence during the August 29 UN International Day Against Nuclear Tests in memory of all victims of nuclear weapons testing.
