Devotion, austerity – and miracles at her fingertips
From Ethiopian nobility, Emahoy Guèbrou had a privileged childhood, but traded it in for a life of poverty and service.
From Ethiopian nobility, Emahoy Guèbrou had a privileged childhood, but traded it in for a life of poverty and service.
Sergei Grigoryants was bashed and lost an eye, was hit by a car, his son died mysteriously, but he kept trying to expose corruption in Russia.
It was called the Fosbury flop – it won its inventor an Olympic gold medal at Mexico and quickly upended the sport of high jumping.
Television executive Brian Walsh always knew Australians would enthusiastically adopt pay TV, and his skills help draw millions to it.
Gleb Pavlovsky was the Kremlin’s spinmeister as the baton was passed from Yeltsin to the former KGB agent.
Lynyrd Skynyrd stalwart outlived all his original band members and was planning to tour again with the band later in the year.
Beach Boys drummer Dennis Wilson met Charles Manson’s ‘family’ by accident, and the encounter led to murder and mayhem.
Simone Segouin had left school and was working her father’s fields when the Germans arrived in 1940. She decided to do something about it.
Ever since photographer Diane Arbus pointed her camera towards society’s misfits, it has been debated whether she should have. Either way, her pictures cannot be unseen | WARNING: Graphic
Like Paul McCartney, Hans Poulsen heard Little Richard’s Long Tall Sally as a boy, and his path to a life in music was set.
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