19 best moments of 2019
The US Women's Football Team, Keanssaince and Mr. Rogers were some of the 2019 highlights.
As we need more deeply in December each year, we tend to come back to some of the best and worst moments of the last 12 months brought us. And although 2019 certainly had his challenges, it was also a year with truly wonderful highlights. Scientists have unveiled 3D printing technology that isTransform the world of health and We had to experience the newStars wars-Ehemed "edge of the galaxy" In Disney World and Disneyland, for example.
Although there have been a lot moreInnovations, large and smallThis will remain with us in 2020 and beyond, part of what we are savoring in 2019 will not make the trip in the next calendar year. There are 19 things from 2019 that we are a bit emotional to have to be part of the roads - they made our lives better these 365 days and for that, we will always be grateful.
1 The challenge of the bottle
Internet gave us so many "terrible and dangerous challenges", swallow tidal pods to eat cinnamon without water. But the challenge of the bottle was the first time the word "challenge" was not Just a nicer way to say "Double Dog Dare". It's because it was actually a legitimate test, which you needed the perfect blend of creativity and raw talent to succeed. Everyone celebrities at Teenagers tried the impossible, unscrewing a bottle cap with a kicking swing or a roundabout. We applaudedevery victory, RECOGNIZING that sometimes Internet throws us a bullet of curve and brings out the best of people.
2 "Storm Region 51"
The "Storm area 51, they can not stop us all"The campaign started as a joke on Facebook, then became real when 1.5 million extraterrestrial enthusiasts RSVP had participated in the attempt to invade the location kept by the government and to determine if the foreigners are real. We have been legitimately worried. That it would become bloody, especially when aAir Force Representative warned That they were "ready to protect America and his assets", who saw the organizers respond with: "If we Naruto run, we can go faster than their bullets." But do you know what? It has not finished as bad as expected. In fact, it turned into one or more specifically in "Alien-stock"- Blason Woodstock but with fewer hippies and greener sets.
3 Feel safe when we had a Boeing plane
It started withTwo major accidents in less than five months. And then in June, theFederal Aviation Administration 300 jets of Boeing 737, claiming that nearly 150 parts could be "sensitive to premature failure or cracks." If that was not already enough, it was announced that the plane hadsameFollowing security problems. All we ask in 2020 is that we can get a Boeing plane with the confidence we are in good hands.
4 Speech u.n.n. Greta Thunberg
When a 16-year-old climate activistGreta Thunberg addressed theClimate Action Summit of U.N. In September, she certainly did not act as a teenager of her comfort zone. She was confident, accusing and downright angry. "I should not be standing here,"said to the amazed crowd. "I should be back at school on the other side of the ocean. Yet you all come to home for hope. How dare you!" His words have inspired children around the world to get up and act as they came out of the school to put theSpotlight on climate change. Thunberg is not done yet, but we will never forget the goose bumps to hear it speak for the first time.
5 The original cathedral of Notre-Dame
Although most of this Parisian landmark of nearly 860 years is always after fire to mid-April, part of the initial architecture ofOur Lady was damaged beyond the repair-The wooden lattice roof of the cathedral and the emblematic arrow included. We know that the French presidentEmmanuel Macron promised To rebuild the cathedral over the next five years and make it "more beautiful than before", but it does not lose part of the more devastating historical structure.
6 View of US women soccer team win the World Cup
It was not the first year theThe national football team of the United States won the World Cup-Ilt'dy'd did twice three times before 2019 - but it was their sweetest victory yet. It was the year where the teamSued U.S. Soccer For discrimination by sex, on the grounds that women players were paid less than male athletes, who were not close to matching the success of the women's team. That was the year they proved their point, they had not. And in November, they had a major victory on this one: the National League Women's SoccerRule changes announcedThis will increase the salaries of players and team salary caps for the 2020 season.
7 Stars wars
We know there will be othersStars wars movies and TV shows - as the nextObi-Wan Kenobi Series withEwan McGregor Disney +. CornClimb SkywalkerWhich will be published before the end of the year, is the latest in the series of films "official". SCI-FI SAGA which began in 1977 withGeorge Lucas'The other original payment, now calledA new hope, Ends withNot a word. Abrams Behind the camera for the last chapter of the beloved EPIC.Hollywood journalist even called "the end ofStars wars"What we do not moor - we made a small eye with tears.
8 Not knowing what looked like a black hole
Before 2019, no one could really conceive what a black hole look like. It was just an intangible concept, a vast darkness, something that could not be seen with the naked eye. But then everything changed, thanks to the MIT student 29 yearsKatie Bouman, Which helped to create an algorithm that led to theTelescope Horizon Event Capture the first image of a real black hole (seen here). Looks like he an "eye of sauron" thethe Lord of the Rings movies? Yes, it is a little. And somehow it makes everything more awesome.
9 TV that has defined the last decade
There is no shortage ofGreat TV watchingBut this does not make the request farewell to shows that we fell in love with the past decade, those who plunged the standards and have television with the time.
Exhibit A: When it aired its last episode in May,Big Bang Theorywas over 12 years. This means that if you've started watching it in kindergarten, you would prepare your degree of your school when you saw Sheldon Signing Off. It's a childhood in a series!
Some of us have such emotional attachments to brilliant shows likevegetate andOrange is the new black, It was devastating to say goodbye when we have also left this summer.
10 Discover Lizzo first
Lizzo will always be great, but the first time you have seen, it will always be something special (especially if it was his amazing appearance at theMTV Video Music Awards in August). Once you have seen a woman, this gloriously talented and confident woman takes the stage and perform the flute, whiletwerking Not least, this is not something you will forget anytime.
11 the Keanussaince
Sure,Keanu Reeves going nowhere, but we doubt that we will ever have a year filled with manygrief moments action star affable as we did in 2019. FromPlaying with puppies To tell fans that adorethey are breathWe can not get enough Keanu and his innate ability to charm our socks. It really is theKeanussainceand 2020 will have a hard pressure in such a magical time.
12 Filter face for baby Snapchat
Newsweek That said best when they described the popular application, which transformed the faces of the adorable little babies in users, as "what we needed." While the rest of the world seemed to age us faster than we could believe, with a silly picture filter, we could, somehow, back the hands of time and laughing at our silly seat. It was a welcome comedy relief and what we need, indeed.
13 Iron Man
Avengers: Endgame was probably one ofbest superhero moviesFrom the decade, but we are still in a deep denial on the iron man. (If you have not seen the movie yet, stop readingNOW.)
This is not the real world, right? Heroes are not supposed to die! And superheroes with iron costumes and families back home that depend on them, they are absolutelynot allowed Leave this deadly coil! But Marvel broke the mold this spring when they did it. You will miss you, Iron Man. How do you dare to make us cry for a superhero movie packed for action.
14 Crumpling cat
She was onlyseven years When she left us, but it was as if she was part of our life for much longer. The grumpy cat managed to make the internet a brighter and happier place, especially by being the most unhappy hilarious feline that has ever walked on all fours. We hope that Tardar sauce (his real name) is in a better place now, but nottoo much much better. We need a comforting strange scraper to live, wherever it is.
15 Mr. Rogers Nostalgia
We did not realize how much we missedFred Rogers up toTom Hanks we reminded us withA beautiful day in the neighborhoodThe film is most likely to make viewers succumb to an uncontrollable, but happy, Sob-Fest party. We still have not completely recovered from the film, which was published in November and led to a series of comforting moments (such as theNewborns are dressed as Rogers at a Philadelphia hospital) Thank you 2019, to remind us how much we missed, and sincerely necessary, our unconditional goodness of his favorite neighbor.
16 Billy Ray Cyrus singing on a song of hip-hop
The guy who gave us "Achy Breaky Heart" wasBack on graphics This year with a song of hip-hop. And here is the really crazy part - the song "Route planner of the old town, "was infected unsuccessfully. So much eye-catching, in fact, heBroke Billboard Records! The very idea thatBilly Ray Cyrus Team with an openly gay rapperLIL NAS X To save a song about riding, horses still seem like something stretched in a dream of fever. But it happened here in the year 2019, and that's something we can all say that we lived to testify.
17 The red carpet of Billy wear
Of his jewel costume withhot pink cape to gold globes to hisBlack smoking ball dress to the rewards of the Academy to its ensemble "Golden and winged Egypt Pharaoh" (asHarper Bazaar described it) atGalaactorBilly wear The jaws dropped each time he went down a red carpet in 2019, changing the mode rules can be in the process. The pure creativity of his outfits and the delight he took with the bearing, put a smile on the faces of all who looked at him stricken his business.
18 The applause of Natasha Lyonne at the 2019 EMMYS
TheRussian doll Star did not win at the Emmy 2019 rewards - she was named for an exceptional actress in a series of comedies - but she had the entire Twitterverse talk after her peculiarity.attempts to applause during the ceremony. We still do not know if it was serious or trying to get outNicole Kidman's Weird attempt to applaud During the Oscars of 2017. But whatever his intentions was the most memorable moment of the famous person who appeared-appearance of the year.
19 Acts of random kindness
If you fear thatkindness was a lost art In today's world, there was a lot of evidence in 2019 that people are still capable of being decent from each other. Take those whoshown for funerals of a veteran of Tennessee Air Force without friends or family in September, for example. Or the Mailman of Suburban Atlanta who retired after 35 years and wassurprised during his last road May more than 300 people were outCelebrate his last day on work, decorating their mailboxes and throwing a block party. We do not want to have our hopes, but we wantmore than 2020.