Month: January 2021

Social Media’s Night of the Long Knives

Dorsey and Zuckerberg lost nearly $5 billion after Trump’s account blocked. The total fortune of the head of Twitter Jack Dorsey and the founder of Facebook Mark Zuckerberg fell by almost $ 5 billion in a day. Earlier, social networks decided to block the accounts of Donald Trump, after which the shares of companies began to fall rapidly. It gets worse for the dual-passport holder Mark Zuckerberg as 500 Twenty-five million new users joined Telegram messenger in the last 72 hours alone, the messenger’s founder Pavel Durov said Tuesday.

Mad Museum removes Irish Hero’s Hat

The museum removed the cap which had been on display for decades for ‘ethical reasons’ as it had visible signs of blood and organic brain matter that stained the original user’s headwear. Blood and organic matter residue are visible on the back of the cap at the point where the fatal bullet entered Collins’s head.

The World’s Longest Voyage by Canoe

Don Starkell wasn’t the kind of guy to shy away from improbable odds. So when people told him his dream of paddling a canoe from Winnipeg to the Amazon was impossible, it fuelled his determination to do it. The epic trip would stretch nearly 20,000 kilometres, through 13 countries, and would include life-threatening tropical storms, fierce waves and a near-execution in Honduras.

Why do European monarchs wear Russian ‘kokoshniks’? (PHOTOS)

At official functions, European royalty can often be seen wearing tiaras that resemble an old Russian headdress called the kokoshnik. In Russia, empresses and grand duchesses wore this kind of tiara beginning from Catherine the Great’s rule during the second half of the 18th century. Outside of Russia, the fashion for the tiare russe developed thanks to Queen Alexandra, the wife of King Edward VII and sister of the Russian Empress Maria Feodorovna, wife of Alexander III. Some of those tiaras still include the word “kokoshnik” in their official names, although they never actually belonged to any members of the Russian royal family