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Marlène Dietrich's early years. Maria Magdalene Dietrich is one of the greatest actresses Berlin has ever had, because she managed to combine passion with talent in her various interpretations. She is born on the 27th of December 1901, in Berlin...
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Katharine Houghton Hepburn was born on the 12th of November 1907, at Hartford, Connecticut. She was the daughter of a famous surgeon, Thomas Norval Hepburn and of Martha Houghton, a suffragette. From an early age, her mother advised Katharine to spea...
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It's wonderful to have the ability of letting your emotions run free. It's wonderful to be able to materialize them, thus allowing other people to be a part of your beautiful act of creation. That's what Alexandra Nechita does every da...
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What can be more beautiful than that sweet age of childhood? That's the moment when the simple touch of a butterfly can make all the dreams come true. That was what happened to Shirley Temple. Millions of butterflies just took her dreams and mad...
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Emily Dickinson is not your usual poet. She did not fight throughout her life to achieve recognition or fame as a great literary writer. The poet fought with her own inner demons, but no one could say they knew about that battle. She decided to be a ...
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Simone de Beauvoir was the woman who lived passionately and dedicated her existence to the pursuit of a dream. She was the woman who broke time's barriers and made her way into a men's world. She was an intellectual, a woman of the world wh...
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There are people that come on this earth with a special purpose. This is how I would describe Rosa Luxemburg, the woman who lost her life to fulfill an ideal. It's wonderful to see that such passion can be embodied in a simple human being. It ca...
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This is the story of a freethinker who defied the Victorian period and managed to release herself from the chains of conventions. Compared to the Russian writer, Dostoevsky, she paved the way to modern character portrayals with her insightful psychol...
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You know what they say: a man has to know both sufferance and joy in his life on earth. But what about those of us to whom destiny does not give a chance. Well, they have to create their own opportunities. This is what Josephine Baker did; she create...
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You would think that one has to be passionate about dancing in order to read about Anna Pavlova or to take an interest in what she accomplished throughout time. I thought exactly the same, but the more I read about her the more I became interested. I...
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So I eventually got myself to write about Virgina Woolf, but believe me, it took weeks and weeks of convincing myself (as well as some convincing from the boss who said she was gonna give me the boot – apparently she has a thing for t...
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It has come to this, my dear, dear friends, the day we talk about the woman who is generally considered to hold the biggest amount of power (as in influence) in the whole wide world. You might probably think it's some woman involved in politics ...
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Can a 19 year-old peasant girl change the face of a nation and reach saintly status while at the same time becoming a national hero? Sounds a bit fishy if you ask me, more like a story for a soapy Hollywood box office flop, but in reality, there WAS ...
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When you say “Gone With the Wind”, most of you immediately think of the Hollywood blockbuster that literally swept the nation when it first came out (and still manages to make some people happy on a lonely Saturday night); some of you...
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You just gotta love it when a woman beats men at their own game! The Wild West is generally regarded as a place where women couldn't thrive doing men activities, but somehow, a couple of female figures emerge from those days to p...
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Her name has been circulated so much in history and her life story has inspired so many artists to bring it into their works that it's hard to see where reality ends and fiction begins. Nonetheless, when one cuts out all the cont...
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For as much as we like to toot our own horn, humankind sure has a nasty habit of destroying all the marvelous pieces of art we create. It seems that after hundreds of years of accumulating knowledge and examples of artistic expression, along comes a ...
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Not many people can understand the rigors and tribulations a life on stage demands of a person and the marks they leave on his life. Only by taking part in that beautiful yet demanding world that takes place behind the stage, can you fully understand...
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Today she is known by her nickname, Evita, which would translate as "Little Eva", especially after the same-titled Hollywood musical starring pop legend Madonna. But aside from all the romanticism and dramatization that producers depicted i...
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Taking into consideration the unspeakable acts of cruelty Hitler went down in history for, there are a lot of people out there who would like to know what this man was like in his private life, what made him tick so to speak. Well, it&#...
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The world thrives on its diversity and so do we, its inhabitants, knowing that it is the little things that set us apart. Eastern and Western worlds have always held true this fact and perhaps this is what led to the numerous conflicts that have plag...
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Princess Diana is for many people the best thing to come out of the Buckingham Palace in a long time so her premature death when she had began to do so much good for humankind came as a shock to millions of people all over the world. Though she was k...
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A little while back when I was writing about Condoleezza Rice, I said she was the second woman to make Secretary of the State in the US. The first woman ever to achieve such a position was Madeleine Albright during the Clinton administration. Aside f...
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Even if her name greatly resembles that of another Indian political and spiritual figure, Mahatma Gandhi, she was in no way related to him, though her achievements are by no means less significant. Aside from the fact that she rose to a position of g...
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It is very seldom that a woman is chosen to become the symbol for an entire nation, let alone lead that people in its hour of need. But when that happens, the result is outstanding and it proves the fact that courage and determination know no gender....
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Let's be frank for a minute here and admit the fact that when it comes to women and politics most men (and some women too) are prejudicial. This is the main reason why today there are only a handful of women activating in the top political circl...
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Gospel music I think is one of the most influential genres out there, seeing it resonates in almost every kind of black music, which in turn influences most artists out there today. Looking at things from this perspective it's easy...
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It's hard not to love Jackie Kennedy, she's got one of those faces that you simply adore and a personality to match, fitted for a first lady. She was a highly controversial person, especially following her husband's death, one of the A...
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If ever there was a good example of how women can fair on the political scene and actually make a difference, then that example would be perfectly embodied by Margaret Thatcher, one of the toughest and most successful Prime Ministers Britain (and...
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She always knew she was supposed to do God's work and so, age 18 she joined the Sisters of Loreto missionary order. But her love for missionary work started much sooner than that. Born in Skopje, today the capital city of Macedonia, she got intr...
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