Mark Cuban (July 31, 1958) was a businessman, investor, and owner of the Dallas Mavericks NBA basketball team. In addition, he is the owner of Landmark Theaters, and Magnolia Pictures and president of the HDTV cable network AXS TV. Cuban was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States. And he enjoyed certain comforts as a member of a working-class … Read more
(Norma Jean Mortenson; Los Angeles, 1926 – id., 1962) American actress. She had a difficult childhood, which was spent in various orphanages. At the age of twenty, Marilyn Monroe began to work as a model and, after some roles in various minor films, in 1950 talent scout J. Hyde proposed her to participate in the films The Asphalt Jungle and Naked Eva , … Read more
(Grantham, United Kingdom, 1925 – London, 2013) British politician, Prime Minister from 1979 to 1990. Margaret Hilda Roberts studied chemical sciences at the University of Oxford and worked for four years as a chemical researcher. In 1951 she married Denis Thatcher, a top oil industry executive, who introduced her to politics. In 1953 she began studying tax … Read more
(Malcolm Little; Omaha, Nebraska, 1925 – New York, 1965) Revolutionary leader of the North American black minority. He was the son of a Protestant pastor and a mulatto woman, born from the rape of a black woman by a white man; During his childhood, he suffered from the continuous transfer of residence of his family, fleeing from … Read more
(George Gordon; London, Great Britain, 1788 – Missolonghi, now Greece, 1824) British poet who is among the most emblematic representatives of European romanticism. Belonging to a family of the aristocracy of his country, he lost his father at the age of three. In 1798, on the death of his great-uncle William, 5th Baron Byron, he inherited his … Read more
(Lao Tse or Lao-Tse; Northern China, around the 6th – 4th centuries BC) Chinese thinker, creator of Taoism. Known only by legend, the time in which he lived is disputed and there are even those who doubt the real existence of this character with an unknown name, since Lao Tse is only a title that means “old master”. … Read more
Julia Carolyn McWilliams , born August 15, 1912, in Pasadena, California, was an American foodie, author, and television personality noted for her promotion of traditional French cuisine, especially through her shows on public television. The daughter of a prosperous financier and consultant, McWilliams graduated from Smith College (BA, 1934) and occasionally worked in advertising. During World War II, from … Read more
Johnny Cash (February 26, 1932 – September 12, 2003) was a country, gospel, rock and roll, and rockabilly singer, guitarist, songwriter, and actor. He was born in Kingsland, Arkansas, United States. His family did not enjoy a good economic condition, therefore, from the age of six, Johnny had to work on cotton plantations. From a very young age … Read more
(Liverpool, 1940 – New York, 1980) British singer and musician, founder and leader of The Beatles, the legendary Liverpool quartet that dominated the music scene in the 1960s. During his time in The Beatles, John Lennon contributed to the band his creative concerns and his radical nonconformity, against the more commercial and frivolous vein of … Read more
Fascinating and contradictory character, John F. Kennedy is one of the most remembered American politicians of the second half of the 20th century. After becoming the first Catholic to become president of the United States, he promoted a policy of reforms aimed at recovering world primacy for his country, put in doubt by the Soviet space … Read more