Ex-Sydney journo charted changes of global fashion
She may have been little known in her homeland, but Elsa Klensch was the biggest name in New York fashion for 40 years.
She may have been little known in her homeland, but Elsa Klensch was the biggest name in New York fashion for 40 years.
When Bolivian soldier Mario Teran was given the job of executing the communist rebel, his gaze made the sergeant ‘dizzy’.
The Ukrainian defence forces are up against one of the world’s biggest armies — but we should not take for granted that they cannot prevail.
As a medical student, Paul Farmer visited Haiti. It changed him -and poor people in many countries had better lives as a result.
On the first day shy Autherine Lucy went to university, she set off riots and was expelled. Last month, a University of Alabama hall was named after her.
From allowing abortion to decriminalising homosexuality, we take for granted the radical changes Moss Cass sought to make.
David Banks was once deputy editor of The Australian, but he was more at home in the fiercely competitive world of London’s tabloids.
Cristina Calderon, who has died aged 93, was the last full-blood descendant of the people observed by Charles Darwin when he reached the southernmost land on Earth.
President Nixon’s famous meeting with Chairman Mao was a curious affair that decided nothing – but it still changed the course of world history.
Television producer went from making tea for Spike Milligan to creating an international star of Benedict Cumberbatch.
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