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Apr 20, 2020 · Lennon & McCartney and 14 Other Partnerships That Changed The World. From technology to comedy, pairs of people working together have shaped the world we live in today. By hannah rochell. april 20 2021. There are some everyday things that it’s hard to imagine the world without: aeroplanes, The Beatles, search engines.
- The Olympics. Vancouver Olympic Cauldron. | Flickr: Tom Kelly. Let’s forget the aggressive competition that we all love to watch, and remember the Olympics are a beautiful example of countries putting aside their differences in order to come together to celebrate the world’s best athletes.
- The creation of the League of Nations. Addresses delivered on the occasion of the 100th session of the council, January 27th, 1938. | Flickr: peacepalacelibrary.
- The Unity Rallies in Paris and elsewhere. A sign at a rally reads “Muslim and I am Charlie.” | Flickr: Romain Lefort. If a terrorist’s biggest weapon is terror, then the terrorists responsible for the attacks that killed 17 people in Paris this past January failed big-time.
- The Creation of the United Nations. United Nations Headquarters. | UN Photo/Joao Araujo Pinto. Following the second world war, the United Nations was formed in 1945 to replace the (ineffective) League of Nations with the goal of promoting international cooperation.
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Managing Director, IMF In August 2021, the 190 member countries of the International Monetary Fund—working together to tackle the pandemic, a crisis like no other—delivered an achievement like no other: a historic $650 billion injection of Special Drawing Rights(SDRs) to help the global economy, and especially nations that are suffocating amid COVI...
Director-General, World Health Organization At its heart, the pandemic is a crisis of solidarity and sharing of data and information, biological samples, and resources and tools. COVID-19 has shown the importance of rapid and broad sharing of informationabout pathogens for effective surveillance and the timely development of medical-response produc...
Founding Partner, Global Optimism, and Former Executive Secretary of the U.N. Framework Convention on Climate Change Way back in 2015, the 196 national governments that adopted the historic Paris Agreementon climate change did so in part because they realized that their enlightened self-interest coincided in a decarbonized global economy that stave...
Executive Vice President for A Europe Fit for the Digital Age and Competition, European Commission Europe and the U.S. have come together before to protect democracy. Today, our liberal institutions are imperiled not by the blazing sound of bombs, but by the harmful silence of technology. Everywhere, we see democracy fragmented into bubbles, driven...
Venture Partner, Regen Ventures, and Former CEO, Patagonia These days, some of my richest collaborations are with fungal networks—and with human organizations with the curiosity and vision to leverage fungi’s power. Suffice to say we have plenty to learn from fungi: the interconnectedness of their systems; the resilience, the diversity, the distrib...
President, Asian Development Bank At COP26 in Glasgow, I had a brief exchange with a young university student. She described how climate change is affecting her country and our planet, and shared her ideas about fighting it. Just a few hours later, I spoke at an event alongside Indonesian Finance Minister Sri Mulyani Indrawati. What struck me was t...
Mayor of Bogotá Colombia is a vibrant and diverse country and our capital city, Bogotá, has become home to thousands of Colombians who have moved to the city from regions across the nation. They bring with them diversity of ethnicity, culture, social and political beliefs as well as labor skills. With 15% of the national population, Bogotá is respo...
Actor and U.N. Environment Programme goodwill Ambassador I believe in using fame for good. From serving as a global goodwill ambassador for the U.N. Environment Programme to campaigning against genocide in Darfur, I support people organizing for freedom and justice. But over the years, I’ve learned that systemic change takes more than one person ac...
Their work together resulted in one of the formative inventions of the 20th century – and a completely different world. 2. James Watson and Francis Crick illuminated the structure of life. Drs. Watson and Crick didn’t know each other particularly well before they began their work together trying to understand the structure of the DNA molecule.
- Hardy-Ramanujan. Perhaps one of the most well-known real-life examples of collaboration is that of Srinivasan Ramanujan and G. H. Hardy. Ramanujan was a shipping clerk and self-taught mathematician in Madras, India.
- Einstein and Marcell Grossman. Take one of the greatest geniuses in history, Albert Einstein. Little do we know that he was no lone genius – he collaborated with two of his fellow students at ETH Zurich, Marcel Grossmann and Michele Besso.
- Watson, Crick, Wilkins and Franklin. The double helix structure of DNA was discovered thanks to the combined effort of four people James Watson, Francis Crick, Maurice Williams and Rosalind Franklin.
- Swami Vivekananda and Nikola Tesla. One of the more unusual collaborations was between the spiritual leader Swami Vivekananda and scientist Nikola Tesla, which brought modern science and the ancient philosophy of Vedanta closer.
Oct 9, 2011 · Martin Luther King was the African-American clergyman and activist who spearheaded the Civil Rights Movement. Like Mandela and Gandhi, King advocated non-violent methods to advance civil rights in the US and around the world. His work focused on abolishing racial segregation in America, and he led the Montgomery Bus Boycott in 1955 and the 1963 ...
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May 31, 2016 · Take these two brothers-in-law, William and James. Both men were immigrants and both were entrepreneurs. William was a candlemaker and James a soapmaker, both living in Ohio. Eventually, the two men married a pair of sisters, the Norris sisters. Their father-in-law, Alexander Norris, noticed that both men competed for the same materials to make ...
