This well-researched biography, illustrated with archival and modern photographs, explores the life of the civil servant who masterminded the transformation.
Donald F. Glut is a freelance writer and movie director. He wrote some Marvel Star Wars comics, as well as the Star Wars Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back.
Charlie Alvin Beckwith was a career United States Army Special Forces officer best remembered for creating Delta Force, the premier counterterrorism and asymmetric warfare unit of the United States Army, based on his experience serving with the.
Born Faegheh Atashin (b. 1951) in Tehran (Iran), Googoosh began performing with her father at an early age. The duo performed most often in cabaret clubs.
Fred M'membe is a Zambian journalist known for his editorship of the Zambia Post. He has received numerous international awards for his reporting. In 2000, the International Press Institute named him one of its World Press Freedom Heroes.
Naphtali Luccock (1853–1916) was an American bishop of the Methodist Episcopal Church, elected in 1912. He was born on 28 September 1853 in Kimbolton, Ohio.
Louis Braille is the inventor of the braille code. He was born on January 4, 1809, in Coupvray, France. At the age of 3, while playing in his father's shop.
Stewart Granger was born James Lablache Stewart in London, the great grandson of the opera singer Luigi Lablache. He attended Epsom College but left after.