Greatest Female Singers: Yellow Magpie’s Top Ten
Down through the years, female singers have entertained and enthralled us. A good performer can bring an audience on a journey through powerful emotions. One minute they can make the heart soar the next make it break. That is the gift of a good performer, and strangely it is not always the best singers who can [...]
Julian Beever: The Incredibly Talented Street Artist Of Perspective
Vicktor Shklovsky once wrote that the purpose of art was to make the familiar, unfamiliar. Julian Beever certainly achieves this with his dazzling street art paintings.
Le Corbusier: The Man Who Tried To Destroy Paris
He was a man at the heart of modernist architecture. He led the charge to build functional, modern buildings. If he had gotten his way he would have gutted the centre of Paris and turned it into an eyesore. The man who called himself, Le Corbusier, was one of the most influential architects of the [...]
Julia Child: Passionate About Cooking
Eccentric, larger-than-life and extremely charismatic, one woman revolutionised cooking in the United States. Becoming America’s culinary sweetheart by bringing the exotic and sophisticated French cuisine into homes across the USA, Julia Child became one of the first celebrity chefs of the television age. Making cooking fun and enjoyable with her unconventional and no nonsense approach, she made creating [...]
Michael Jackson: Personae’s Of A Talented But Controversial Superstar
Slick, determined, and in search of perfection, Michael Jackson was the ultimate performer. Dogged and resolute on achieving his dreams, Jackson changed the face of music forever. Redefining and reinventing a new landscape, he managed to merge the best of television, dance and music into a sumptuous blend resulting in a brilliant art-form. He did so [...]
Saint Patrick: The Adopted Irish Man
Saint Patrick is the Patron Saint of Ireland and is credited with bringing Christianity to the pagans of the Emerald Isle. Even more remarkably, he is also said to be responsible for ridding the country of snakes.
Pistol Pete Maravich: The Ultimate Showman And Basketball’s First Star
Basketball is a game that, when played well, requires enormous skill. Great players appear to make everything look simple and easy. Intricate dribbling, great shooting and two-handed reverse dunks are explained by tremendous talent and great genetics. However, the truth is that all good players put in a tremendous amount of time developing these aspects [...]
Evgeni Plushenko and Alexei Yagudin: The Rivalry Of The Greatest Figure Skaters
Figure skating is a supreme sport. A marriage of raw athleticism with delicate poise and gracious movements, it is truly a spectator’s event. Undoubtedly, two of the leading candidates for male figure skating have been the Russians, Evgeni Plushenko and Alexei Yagudin. Together they have changed the course of the sport and reached new heights [...]
Ennio Morricone: The Greatest Composer The World Has Ever Known
Some of us have different concepts that we use to describe the experience of listening to music. We choose to use intellectual equations and formulas to ascertain the perfect musical score. The sumptuous blend of bass, treble and rhythm all working together to give us something unique, something remarkable, something unmatched.
Alfonso Ribeiro: ‘Carlton Banks’ The All Dancing, All Singing Child Prodigy
Alfonso Ribeiro, best known for playing Carlton Banks in ‘The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air’, was hailed as a child prodigy. Before Ribeiro even reached teenage years, he had starred in a Broadway musical,PBS television specials, and was even cast in a successful television series.
Elizabeth Arden: A Pioneering Woman
‘I want to be the richest little woman in the world’, these were the words of Elizabeth Arden, the pioneering woman who brought cosmetics to American Women. When Elizabeth made that quote, she had no notion how she would fulfil her dream, but fulfil it she did, leaving a legacy that will last for years [...]
Helena Rubinstein: A Woman Who Made Beauty Her Business
Helena Rubinstein cosmetics are known, used and loved by women throughout the world. The Rubinstein name is synonymous with glamour and beauty but Helena Rubinstein was a hard nosed business woman who built an empire from very little.
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