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]]>Three Wins at Three Different Slams
Williams holds seven titles at the Australian Open and Wimbledon and six more at the US Open, and she’s the only tennis player to ever achieve this feat.
Most Grand Slam Wins
With 367 Grand Slam wins under her belt, Williams holds the record for most Grand Slam victories by a female player in the Open Era.
Most Grand Slams After 30
By the time they reach 30, most tennis players have already left their best days behind them – but not Williams. She won 10 Grand Slam titles since turning 30, the most for any woman in the Open Era.
Oldest Grand Slam Single’s Winner
Serena was 35 years, four months, and two days old when she defeated her sister Venus to win the Australian Open crown in 2017, becoming the oldest women’s singles player to win a Grand Slam in the Open Era.
Career Golden Slam in Singles and Doubles
Williams excelled as both the singles and doubles player alongside her sister Venus, and she’s the only player to achieve the Career Golden Slam in both singles and doubles.
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]]>The auction took place at Henry Aldridge & Son in Devizes, Wiltshire last week, and featured many impressive pieces of Titanic memorabilia. The case of the violin belonging to the bandleader Wallace Hartley and a pocketbook detailing the Titanic’s voyages also fetched impressive prices, but none of them compares to Astor’s watch.
Astor went down with the ship at the age of 47, after putting his wife Madeleine on a lifeboat. He was a successful businessman and one of the richest passengers aboard the RMS Titanic, with a net worth of roughly $87 million, equivalent to $2.75 billion today.
The golden watch with his initials was eventually recovered from his body and was expected to sell for about $189,000 at auction. It exceeded everyone’s expectations and became one of the highest-selling items from Titanic at $1.5 million.
According to the auctioneer Andrew Aldridge, the prices fetched at this sale were absolutely incredible cause “they reflect not only the importance of the artifacts themselves and their rarity but they also show the enduring appeal and fascination with the Titanic story.”
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]]>Largest Streaming Week
Tortured Poets debuted atop the Billboard 200 chart with the second-largest week for any album and the largest streaming week overall, with 891.37 million streams across 31 songs.
Most No. 1 Albums Among Soloists
Tortured Poets is Swift’s 14th album to hit No. 1 helping her tie Jay-Z’s record for most chart-topping albums among soloists, only second to The Beatles with 19 No. 1 records.
Largest Modern-Day Vinyl Week
Tortured Poets also scored the largest sales week of Swift’s career. Vinyl copies alone made up for 859,000 units in sales, helping the singer score the largest vinyl week in modern history.
Top 14 Billboard Hot 100 Hits
Swift monopolized the first 14 spots on the Billboard Hot 100 with the songs from her new album, becoming the first artist to ever achieve this feat.
First Woman With 50+ Top 10 Hits
The success of Tortured Poets brought Swift’s number of top ten hits to 59, helping her become the only female artist in the Hot 100 history with over 50 songs in the top 10.
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]]>Venus de Milo
Discovered on the island of Milos, this Parian marble statue depicts the Greek goddess of love, so it’s also known by the nickname Aphrodite de Milos. There’s a lot of mystery surrounding its original creator, but it’s widely believed it was sculpted by Alexandros of Antioch between 150 and 125 BC.
Winged Victory of Samothrace
Just like Venus de Milo, this headless statue now resides in Louvre Museum, but how did it end up there? Charles Champoiseau discovered this statue dedicated to the goddess Niké on the island of Samothrace and decided to send it to Louvre. He later tried to find its missing arms and head, but with no success.
(@atelier_dela_nature)Parthenon Frieze
This marble sculpture was created to adorn the walls of Parthenon’s naos in Athens, but it’s now located in the British Museum in London. The meaning behind this sculpture remains unsolved to this day, and there are many different interoperations surrounding it, but it’s widely believed that it represents the Panathenaic procession.
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]]>Venus de Milo
Discovered on the island of Milos, this Parian marble statue depicts the Greek goddess of love, so it’s also known by the nickname Aphrodite de Milos. There’s a lot of mystery surrounding its original creator, but it’s widely believed it was sculpted by Alexandros of Antioch between 150 and 125 BC.
Winged Victory of Samothrace
Just like Venus de Milo, this headless statue now resides in Louvre Museum, but how did it end up there? Charles Champoiseau discovered this statue dedicated to the goddess Niké on the island of Samothrace and decided to send it to Louvre. He later tried to find its missing arms and head, but with no success.
Parthenon Frieze
This marble sculpture was created to adorn the walls of Parthenon’s naos in Athens, but it’s now located in the British Museum in London. The meaning behind this sculpture remains unsolved to this day, and there are many different interoperations surrounding it, but it’s widely believed that it represents the Panathenaic procession.
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]]>All Quiet on the Western Front is an adaptation of Erich Maria Remarque’s seminal novel of the same name, originally published in 1929. It’s told from the vantage point of the fictional German soldier Paul Bäumer, and we get to experience the extreme physical and mental trauma that the soldiers witnessed during the war through his eyes.
Since Bäumer didn’t really exist, it would be a mistake to describe All Quiet on the Western Front as a true story, but many of the events we get to see on screen are rooted in reality. The novel’s writer Remarque was a World War I veteran, and he drew inspiration for this book from his experiences in the Imperial German Army.
Some of the characters in All Quiet truly existed, including German politician Matthias Erzberger and French general Ferdinand Foch, who were entrusted to sign the armistice between Germany and the Allied Powers. This storyline wasn’t present in the book, and this is one of the most significant differences between the two.
Despite being met with generally positive reviews, Netflix’s adaptation drew criticism for certain historical inaccuracies in terms of fighting scenes, including the inaccurate portrayal of certain weapons such as flamethrowers and barbed wire installations.
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]]>Mr. Darcy’s wet shirt was sold at an auction hosted by Kerry Taylor Auctions in London on Tuesday, which included over 60 costumes from John Bright’s costume house Cosprop. The list of costumes sold at the auction also included Madonna’s Christian Dior ball gown from Evita ($50,000), Johnny Depp’s Ichabod Crane costume from Sleepy Hollow ($30,000), and Drew Barrymore’s dreamy dress Ever After: A Cinderella Story ($20,000).
Firth’s Mr. Darcy shirt was definitely the most significant piece of TV history sold at this auction, and the backstory behind it is quite interesting. It was featured in the iconic scene that shows Mr. Darcy having an impromptu swim in a lake before running into his Elizabeth Bennet, and it wasn’t originally featured in Jane Austen’s novel.
Collin Firth recalled the iconic moment on the auctioneer’s website and explained how the idea of the “wet shirt” was born.
“Mr. Darcy’s ‘wet shirt moment’ was never scripted. It came about in discussions between myself and the late Christopher Prins who was then head of menswear at Cosprop. In the scene Mr. Darcy is spied emerging from a lake having taken a cooling swim on a hot summer’s day,” recalled Firth.
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]]>Killers of the Flower Moon
Martin Scorsese’s latest film shines the light on the horrendous crimes committed against the Osage Nation, the native community struggling to protect their wealth after oil was discovered on their tribal land.
Oppenheimer
Christopher Nolan’s historical epic chronicles the journey of J. Robert Oppenheimer, known as the “father of the atomic bomb”, who played a crucial role in developing nuclear weapons for the American government during World War II.
The Zone of Interest
Another critically acclaimed film set against the trenches of World War II, The Zone of Interest perfectly captures the banality of evil through the tale of the Auschwitz commandant Rudolf Höss and his family.
Maestro
Bradley Cooper’s Maestro centers on the famed West Side Story composer Leonard Bernstein and explores his complicated relationship with his wife Felicia Montealegre.
Rustin
Bayard Rustin went down in history as one of the greatest civil rights activists, and this film explores the role he played in the Great March on Washington, where Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. delivered his historic “I Have a Dream” speech.
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]]>Most Grammy Wins
With 32 golden gramophones under her belt, Beyoncé is the most awarded artist in the history of the Grammy Awards. She won three awards as part of Destiny’s Child and one more as part of The Carters, and it’s safe to assume this number will rise in the future.
Most Grammys By a Female Artist
Beyoncé also has the most wins among female artists, and Alison Krauss of Union Station joins her as the only female performer with over 20 Grammy Awards.
Most Grammy Nods
With 88 nominations, Beyoncé shares the record for the most nominated artist in Grammy history with her husband Jay-Z.
Single Night Wins By a Female Artist
Beyoncé took home six Grammys in 2010, setting the record for most wins by a female artist in a single night, which was later tied by Adele in 2012.
Consecutive Album Wins
Beyoncé is the only artist to win eight consecutive Grammy awards for eight consecutive studio albums, including The Carter’s Everything Is Love. Despite achieving this historic milestone, she never received the coveted Album of the Year Grammy.
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]]>Longest Super Bowl Ever
This year’s Super Bowl was only the second one ever to go into overtime, and it eventually resulted in the Chiefs’ 25-22 victory. At 74 minutes and 57 seconds of game time, it made history as the longest Super Bowl of all time, and 7th-longest NFL postseason game overall.
Historic Viewership Numbers
Super Bowl LVIII kept breaking records even after it was over. With a total of 123.4 million viewers tuning in to watch it, it was the most-watched telecast in American television history, and it’s believed to be the most-watched broadcast in the U.S. since the Moon landing in 1969.
Most Rushing Yards & Longest Field Goal
Several NFL records have been set at this year’s Super Bowl, starting with the Chiefs quarterback Patrick Mahomes claiming the record for most rushing yards by a quarterback. Harrison Butker also had a reason to celebrate, after booting a 57-yard field goal to set the record for the longest field goal in a Super Bowl, breaking the new record set by Jake Moody in the same game.
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