News in brief !
2010 brought its lot of gossips, scandals from which here is a brief sight...
2010 also knows its prize of rumours... A recognized journalist Jonathan Alter reveals what first ladies say between them.
" Tanned wanted to know if, as Sarkozy, Michelle and the president have already kept somebody waiting in this way, writes Jonathan Alter in his book. Michelle had a small tense laughter and answered not. " Always according to the author, Carla Bruni would also have had fun in " tell friends how she had shocked Michelle Obama during their first meeting " by telling that " the pressure of the business of the State prevented her husband from making love to her as much as she would want him. " But in a context of world economic crisis, the stakes should be less bling bling...
In every crisis corresponds the construction of one of the biggest high rises of the world, a symbol of the punished megalomania. It is the case with Burj (" the tower ") Dubai, inaugurated on January and the precise height of which was finally revealed. With its 828 meters it seems unscrewable.
On Friday, January 15th is, the annular eclipse was visible since the Central Africa to China. As her name indicates it, it is not total. The moon masks partially only the sun, only the outside ring of which remains visible. It is about a rare cosmic phenomenon which will reproduce only on the 23rd Decembre 3043. Be patient.
April 1st 2010, India announced the coming into force of a law returning the compulsory primary school for all the children from 6 to 14 years old. There is approximately 8 million Indian children out of school today, mainly "untouchable" (the lowest caste in India, the children of which often have no right to go to the school). For 100 years, the country tries to transform the education into a right, and to finish it with its status of privilege which stresses social inequalities.
Let us hope that certain conservative families will accept that their children frequent these "untouchable", which are always subject to numerous discriminations.
On May a Picasso Painting sells for record-breaking $106,5 million at a Christie's auction. The painting « Nude, Green leaves and bust », depicts Picasso's mistress and was painted in just one day in 1932. It was being sold by the estate of philanthropist Frances Lasker Brody. I write a check to you ?
2010 also buried big international figs... We remember : the New York rapper Guru, the king of the jazz Steve Reid, the polish head of state Lech Kaczynski, the Sex Pistol manager Malcolm Mclaren, the french musicianand writer Jean Ferrat, the brittain fashion designer Alexander McQueen, the american writer J.D Salinger, the actress Jean Simmons, the woman who hide Anne Frank and her family Miep Gies, the mexicana singer Lhasa De Sela... And many more.
But contrary to what we would have been able to believe, jhonny haliday is well. Thank you.
