Bessie coleman: boundary-breaking pilot

NATIONAL CHAMPION AND 1950s RACING PIONEER

Exaggerating her beetling monobrow and wispy dark moustache in self-portraits, the artist Frida Kahlo was a female force to be reckoned with, unafraid to pour her heart onto the canvas. Only last autu

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THE Hollywood star who went on to marry eight times and become an icon of the era was born Julia Jean Mildred Frances Turner on February 8, 1920, in Wallace, Idaho. Aged six, Lana moved with her famil

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