During the school holidays, 17-year-old Tiffany visited Italy with the school choir, where they sang in many cathedrals. But then she came across a fountain with exceptional acoustics in Venice and couldn't resist the opportunity. She sang Leonard Cohen's Hallelujah into it and the recording went around the world. When you hear her performance, you will immediately understand why.
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"If we can be equal on the field, why can't we be equal elsewhere?" Nike launched the Equality campaign to promote equality. Its standard-bearers include many sports stars, such as LeBron James and Serena Williams, who promote equality. An ad that everyone should listen to!
Siervas (Handmaids) are a Peruvian rock band made entirely of nuns who use their music to help people in need. Have you ever heard them sawing?
As you probably already know by now, American diplomats have Slovenian classes at the embassy in Ljubljana. They showed how they are progressing on Prešeren's day, when they published a video in which they recite Prešeren's poetry. Laughter guaranteed!
After Croatians, Dutch, Swiss, Germans, Moroccans, Danes, Belgians, Lithuanians, Portuguese and Martians (see below), Slovenians also introduced Slovenia to Donald Trump - because he obviously doesn't know it well enough yet. See what we boasted about.
We all had a favorite teacher, but he sure wasn't as cool as Barry White Jr. from a school in Charlotte, North Carolina that has a unique greeting with each student. Would you like to have such a teacher in your youth?
Lizzy Howell, a curmudgeonly ballerina, became a global sensation after her Instagram video of eleven perfect fouetté and pirouettes was viewed more than 75,000 times. Amazing dancer!
"We realize that it is better to understand each other, so we decided to present our country to him in a way that he will probably like," begins the Dutch satirical show Zondag met Lubach, which filmed a funny video dedicated to the 45th President of the United States, Donald Trump. In it, they present the Netherlands to him in his style, with his rhetoric and vocabulary, and boast, among other things, that they "placed" an ocean between the Netherlands and Mexico.
This year, drivers were especially afraid of snow, as the new regulations on road maintenance relaxed the obligations of winter service. With the icy and snowy roads, many people are probably tired of the plowing system they have in Russia. There, a whole fleet of plowing vehicles goes to work together and the roads are plowed in no time.
Road construction has never been a particularly attractive event. Except maybe for kids who get excited about big excavators at work. But if roads were asphalted everywhere the way they are asphalted in Australia, then it would be a real attraction for everyone. What's more, this method of paving is so fast that the road is being created before your eyes. A five-kilometer section in the west of Australia was paved in two days!
You probably never thought of salting as something that had artistic value, let alone sexy. Salt and pepper food. There is absolutely no art to this, except that you salt the food just right. But Nusret Gökçe, a Turkish chef who takes salting very seriously, disagrees. His unique method of salting has now brought him worldwide fame. Salting is his artistic signature and it works like sprinkling magic dust on the food.
Maybe one day you even manage to compliment the people around you - your colleague has nice shoes or you like a cute photo that a friend posted on the Instagram social network. But what we humans take for granted is the lasting effect a compliment can have on an individual's self-esteem. After watching this heartwarming video, you'll understand why you need to start giving compliments today.