The most popular and one of the expensive cars ever built is Ferrari Enzo. The Enzo features a top speed of 217 mph and reaches easily 60 mph in 3.4 seconds. Only 400 examples of these supercars were produced and it is currently being sold for over $1,000,000 at auctions. Enzo Ferrari is a fantastic sports car produced by the Italian automaker Ferrari between 2002 and 2004. Initially it was thought to appear in a limited production of 349 units, but actually were designed 400. Its current price ...
With 1,200 horsepower and a top speed of about 431 km / h, the Super Sport version of the supermodel Bugatti Veyron, was presented for the first time in the niche manufacturer owned by Volkswagen Group, the fastest production car – a record certified by the Guinness Book of Records. The super model Bugatti Veyron set a new world speed record for a passenger car: 431 km / h. The performance was achieved by the latest (and probably the last) version of the g...
Lamborghini Reventon was launched at Frankfurt. This model will be made only in 20 copies. The price without taxes is 1 million euro. Motorization is 6,500 cc, V12 and 650 hp and 660 N / m animated by a manual six-speed gearbox. Stephan Winkelmann, the president of Automobili Lamborghini SpA said: "The Reventón is the most extreme vehicle built by Lamborghini and the Lamborghini Style Centre designers have taken the technique from the model Murcielago LP640...
Gucci House of Fashion is a famous Italian fashion house and a fashion brand. Gucci is one of the most famous, prestigious and easily recognizable fashion brands in the world. It was the possession of the conglomerate Pinault-Printemps-Redoute (PPR). It was founded in Florence in 1921by Guccio Gucci.
History
In 1938 the company expanded and opened a boutique in Rome. In 1947, Gucci produces bamboo handle bags, which ...
Levi Strauss & Co. is an American fashion house that manufactures famous clothing (especially jeans) and shoes. The headquarters of this company is situated in San Francisco.
History
The company was founded in 1853 in San Francisco, United States by Levi Strauss. In 1849, the gold rush began. In 1853, Levi Strauss began his career as a merchant, he went by boat to San Francisco....
Dolce & Gabbana is an Italian fashion house. The company Dolce & Gabbana has two central lines with some specific differences. The company Dolce & Gabbana was founded in 1985 in Milan. The founders, both native Italians, Domenico Dolce and Stefano Gabbana lead the trademark.
History
In 1985, the designers took part in the fashion show Milano Collezioni, after which they be...
The masterpiece by Pablo Picasso Boy with a Pipe, painted in 1905, when he was only 24 years old, became the most expensive work of art ever sold at the auction in New York for $ 104 million. The oil on canvas painting, measuring 100 × 81.3 cm (slightly over 39 × 32 inches), depicts a Parisian boy holding a pipe in his left hand. The color scheme is rose mingled with dark blue. On the background there are pink roses. It is worth mentioning that the boy is wearing a pink flower crown. The painting, Boy with a Pipe is one of the...
The Ball at the Moulin de la Galette by Pierre-Auguste Renoir was created in 1876.
Description
It is an oil canvas with the height of 131cm and width of 175cm. the colors that characterize the painting are dark and subtle, although it speaks about a ball. It has a direct connection with the reality. In 1876, Renoir rented a cheap studio with a lovely garden. Not far away, there was a dance hall "Moulin de la Galette." Renoi...
Le Bassin Aux Nympheas by Claude Monet is an outstanding piece of art. It is considered one of the most striking in a series of 60 canvases depicting a pond with water lilies that Monet had drawn in the period between 1914 and 1917.Impressive two-meter square canvas is written more boldly and freely, than the earlier versions relating to the 1903-1908. This type of pond with water lilies of Monet speaks about a revolutionary departure from the idea of painting as a "description" of nature to an ...
Michael Joseph Jackson was born on August 29, 1958 and died on June 25, 2009. He is an American pop singer, dancer, songwriter, philanthropist, entrepreneur. He is considered one of the most successful artists in the history. He is 13 Grammy Award winner, he entered Guinness Book of Records 13 times and he sold about 750 million albums. Michael Jackson has made a significant contribution to the development of popular music, movies, dance and fashion. Michael Jackson is the best pop singe...
Enrique Miguel Iglesias Praysler was born on May 8, 1975 in Madrid, Spain. He is a Spanish singer, songwriter, producer and actor. Iglesias began his career under the pseudonym Enrique Martinez and worked with the Mexican record company «FonoMusic». Currently, Enrique has been nominated as one of the most famous representatives of Latino –American music in the world, and he was awarded Grammy and American Music Awards. During his career, Enrique released over 40 singles and nine studio albums, which beca...
Georgios Kyriakos Panayotou was born on June 25, 1963 in London. He is better known under the pseudonym George Michael. He is a popular British singer. George Michael was born in the family of a Cypriot and a British Jew. His musical career began in 1981 when he along with his school friend Andrew Ridzhli created the group «The Executives». As the band was not a success,Michael together with his friend decided to act, taking the name of «Wham!». After the collapse ...
Russell Crowe was born on 7th of April 1964 in Wellington, New Zealand and raised in Sydney, Australia, where his family moved when he was four years old.
He started his acting career and played in small Australian shows. Later he played in a band and worked as a waiter or bartender. When he was 25, Crowe landed his first role in the film "Prisoners of the Sun", but his performances were really n...
Ralph Fiennes is an English actor known for roles in such films as Schindler's List, English Patient, Maid or Harry Potter franchise. Among his recent roles include that of Michael Berg in The Reader or the role of Hades in Clash of the Titans. For his performances, Fiennes has won numerous awards including a Tony Award. He was nominated twice for an Oscar, BAFTA and Golden Globe. He is also a UNICEF ambassador for Great Britain. Ralph was born in Ipswich and is...
Richard Gere was born on August 29, 1949 in Philadelphia. He is the second from the five childrens of the Gere family. When he was small he liked music, and so began to play to some instruments in high school and even wrote some songs for school performances.
He graduated the high school known as North Syracuse Central High School in 1967 and won a gymnastic scholarship at the University of Massachusetts. He left college after two years...
Ronaldo was born in Madeira, Portugal, son of Maria Dolores dos Santos Aveiro and José Dinis Aveiro. He was born on February 2, 1985. He has an older brother, Hugo, and two older sisters, Elma and Liliana Catia. Liliana Catia is a singer with the stage name "Ronald" in Portugal. Cristiano's second name ("Ronaldo") is relatively rare in Portugal. His parents named him in honor of former U.S. president Ronald Reagan.
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Fernando José Torres Sanz, born on March 20, 1984, Madrid, Spain is a Spanish football player that has the striker position at the English team Chelsea FC and at the national football team of Spain. It is nicknamed El Niño, that means child.
He began his career at Atlético Madrid, being promoted through the juniors of the team. He made his debut as a professional in 2001 and during his activity at the Madrilenian club ...
Francesco Totti is undoubtedly one of the greatest football players of the last decades. The symbol of Rome managed to achieve record after record, finding through his performances in the gallery of the most titled players from the Italian football. Totti started his career at Rome’s juniors, the team that he has always supported. Always said he wanted to play in Rome, never intended to leave the Romanian group. The debut at the senior team took place even since Totti was ...
Megan Denise Fox was born on May 16, 1986 in Rockwood Tennessee, she is recognized as one of the fastest rising young stars in Hollywood. Moreover she is a very attractive woman that in a way explains her great number of male fans. She looks really great. She is slim and slender and the great number of tattoos offers her individuality. Although many people say that these tattoos make her lose from real sensual womanhood( as they are too many), she is extraordinary cute. She knows women ar...
Jared Joseph Leto was born on December 26, 1971, in Bossier City, Louisiana. He is an American actor, director, producer and musician. As an actor, he has appeared in both big budget films and smaller projects. He played for the first time as a teenager. He made his film debut in How to Make an American Quilt. His works began to be more profound in 2000. More than that, he was already nominated and awarded. Perhaps that was the first time when the people paid attention to his attractive face and clear and profound eyes. All...
Sharbat Gula is an ordinary woman, that was once taken photo of. She became famous due to National Geographic at the age of 12 in 1985. This is an Afghan woman who was made famous by Steve McCurry. Her life was very difficult as she was living as A Pakistan refugee. There was no name on the picture , simply the Afghan Girl. The people learned her real name some 20 years later. Looking at the photo, you can see a young lady. She is dark tanned, that explains in a way her provenance. Her face is round, she has a protruding ch...
Sanya Mirza was born on November 15, 1986 in Bombay, India. She is an Indian professional tennis player. Sanya Mirza was born in the family of Indian Muslims. His father, Imran, was her coach. In January 2010, Sanya met Shoaib Malik, the captain of Pakistan team of cricket. They got married the same year. Sanya Mirza began to play tennis at the age of six. She played for the first time in the International Tennis Federation (ITF) in 2001, and the following year she won three ITF tourn...
Anna Kournikova was born on June 7, 1981. She is named the former first racket of the world in doubles and a double winner of the Australian Open in doubles (both times - with Martina Hingis). Anna is the youngest tennis player in the Olympic history of Russia. She had her debut at the Olympic Games in Atlanta in 1996, when Anne was 15 years old. She was born in a family of sportsmen. Her father did professional stru...
Maria Sharapova was born on April 19, 1987, in Nyagan, Tyumen Oblast, Russia. Masha's parents came from Gomel. A few months before their daughter’s birth they moved to Siberia because of unfavorable environmental conditions ( after the nuclear explosion in Chernobyl ) Maria started playing tennis at the age of 4. There is one interesting fact in Maria’s biography. Masha’s father, Yuriy Sharapov, was in friendly relationship to Alexander Kafelnikov, Evgene’s Kafeln...
