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A photograph taken by Captain Scott in the Antarctic of Dr Edward Wilson sketching at Beardmore glacier on 13 December 1911.
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Greta Garbo – working the ‘tude I ‘vant’ to be her. Ah, Garbo. The icon, the saucepot, the mystery, the wearer of dressing gowns and parasols … Silent-era Garbo worked the come-hither look like no one before or indeed since. Here in this still from The Flesh and the Devil (1926) she demonstrates how sitting on a rock can still be fashion-hot, if only you can raise an eyebrow, tilt your head and work your outfit properly. As she famously said, “Life would be so wonderful if only we knew what to do with it”
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Greta Garbo, 1946 by Cecil Beaton 'The people who fascinated Beaton were mythical freaks, both more and less than human. He described Garbo as a unicorn, Truman Capote as a perverse cherub and the bloated gossipmonger Elsa Maxwell as an obese butterfly.'
Fred Shuttlesworth (centre left) with Ralph Abernathy and Martin Luther King in Birmingham, Alabama, in May 1963.
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Aung San Suu Kyi, the Nobel peace prizewinner, leader of the opposition NLD party and Burma's democracy icon, has spent more than 15 years detained under house arrest in her lakeside home and in the Insein prison. First detained in July 1989, she continues to work tirelessly to achieve democracy and national reconciliation in Burma despite threats and oppression from the authorities. Soe Min Min, a member of the NLD, was arrested in 2008 for praying for her release and is serving an eight-year sentence at Insein
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Ellen Johnson Sirleaf became Africa's first female president in 2005.
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Nobel peace prize winner and Liberian president Ellen Johnson Sirleaf (pictured) shares the award with peace activist Leymah Gbowee and journalist Tawakkul Karman.
Tawakkul Karman, known by some as the 'mother of the revolution', has long been a thorn in the side of Yemen president Ali Abdullah Saleh
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Sana'a, Yemen: Tawakkul Karman is congratulated by supporters in Tagheer Square after she won the Nobel peace prize
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Tutu dances with Soweto Gospel Choir in St George’s Cathedral on the eve of his 80th birthday.
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Woody Allen and Mia Farrow, by Mary Ellen Mark, 1991 “Woody Allen insisted on the negative space in this. He said, ‘I’ll do the picture with Mia, but we cannot touch.’ I thought, ‘That is the weirdest request, but if that’s what he wants, it makes a better picture.’ We set up all these lights, and at the last minute one failed – but it made the picture more powerful, because it emphasised the distance between them.”
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Orson Welles, by Michael O’Neill, 1985 “This is one of the last photographs of Orson before he died. He loved my camera – a gigantic Deardorff – and decided he had to direct me and tell me where to put the light. So even in his last days, he was performing his directorial role perfectly, and bossing me around. Which was precious.”
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Diane Keaton, by Tierney Gearon, 2005 “When Diane Keaton arrived, she was wearing a hat. As soon as we began, she took it off and started hiding behind it. I think she was surprised I said, ‘OK, if you want to hide your face, let’s do it all the way.’ I asked her to lie in this alley and put her hat over her face. A man saw us and shouted, ‘Hi, Diane Keaton!’ He recognised her just from the hat.”
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Gwyneth Paltrow attends the premiere of Contagion, the new Steven Soderbergh film, in which her character catches a dangerous virus
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Amelia Earhart in the cockpit of her plane in about 1925
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Corruption in Russia Novaya Gazeta, various dates Anna Politkovskaya was murdered in October 2006. She is perhaps the most famous and courageous reporter of our times. Was it a single scoop of hers from inside Chechnya - from the shattered houses, the barracks, the graveyards - that eclipses all the others? Not really: time and again, the reader of her dispatches is bound to wince at the inhumanity she revealed and the intense humanity of her prose. Politkovskaya was not a balanced journalist in the BBC mode. She was a fighter, a campaigner, a furious force of nature outraged by the cruelty she found in a land where few dared to follow her
Blackwell’s Island Insane Asylum New York World 1887 Nellie Bly (real name Elizabeth Jane Cochran, above) was a 23-year-old journalist without a job when she walked into the offices of Joseph Pulitzer’s New York World in 1887 and was given the daunting assignment of exposing the horrors of the Blackwell’s Island Insane Asylum. She rehearsed feverishly. She played mad. “Undoubtedly demented… a hopeless case,” said one of the doctors who admitted her. But inside the asylum she chronicled the awful food and awful conditions that spurred reform. A brilliant reporter; a brilliant example
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Child prostitution Pall Mall Gazette, 1885 William Thomas Stead was the editor of the Pall Mall Gazette and father of British red-top journalism. In 1885, he launched a campaign against child prostitution in a famous series he called “The Maiden Tribute of Modern Babylon” and, to show the true horror of the situation, arranged to buy Eliza Armstrong, the 13-year-old daughter of a chimney sweep. A splendid scoop in one way: it led to the passing of the Criminal Law Amendment Act. But a disaster for Stead in another. He was, ludicrously, sent to prison for not getting due permission from Eliza’s father
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Observer Magazine cover 13 March 1984, celebrating the 80th birthday of the British actor Sir John Gielgud
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Helen Mirren - is blessed with very, very good genes. She is amazing.
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Grace O'Malley was a tough-ass 16th century Irish warrior chick who led a horde of broadsword-swinging Vikings, Celts, and Scottish Highlanders in naval operations that would dominate the coast of Ireland for a couple of decades. Known to her contemporaries as "The Pirate Queen of Connaught," this estrogenocidal ginger gunslinger raided shipping vessels, battled English armies, conquered castles from rival Irish clans, and once traveled to London just so she could talk shit to Queen Elizabeth in person.
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Cristián Enrique Gwyneth, es lejos lo más exquisito de esta tierra...
Sophia Roberts :)))