Visionary scientist called racist and a Nazi
Edward Wilson saw how ants inherited traits such as self-sacrifice, and dared wonder if humans also passed on such influential genes.
Edward Wilson saw how ants inherited traits such as self-sacrifice, and dared wonder if humans also passed on such influential genes.
Fifty years ago, a second-division novelist decided to make a name for himself by writing Howard Hughes’s amazing life story.
Another of the Landa lawyer clan, David Landa steered a different course to become the nuisance ombudsman that his state needed.
Jean-Pierre Schumacher’s long life was filled with love for others, even after seven of his brothers were slain in the Algerian civil war.
What happened to DB Cooper, the skydiving hijacker who, 50 years ago today, grabbed his $200,000 ransom and jumped into the night sky, never to be seen again?
George Hubert Wilkins’ camera caught history’s seminal moments. He dived in, mostly recklessly, often swimming ahead of these sweeping tides in the affairs of mankind.
Not just a remarkable businessman, Glen de Vries was a philanthropist who joined a very elite club of just 600 from all mankind.
In the mad days of Idi Amin’s Uganda in the 1970s, no one was safe, unless they were bootlicking lackeys willing to kill for the boss.
From the 1950s, Mort Sahl stood up to tell complacent audiences that they couldn’t trust their leaders who were in any case stupid.
He was attacked, shot at, his house set alight, and there was a $140,000 bounty on his head, but artist Lasr Vilks has died in a car crash.
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