Jacqueline Cochran is an American pilot and businessperson. As one of the most prominent racing pilots of her generation, she pioneered women's aviation. She broke many records and became the first woman to break the sound barrier on May 18, 1953.
Dina Asher-Smith is the new star of British athletics. The World Champion sprint runner isn't just breaking records anymore: She's breaking old perceptions about being a female athlete by talking about topics women used to only talk about in whispers.
American female athlete Jackie Joyner-Kersee, born in 1962, achieved significant success in the heptathlon and the long jump. A heptathlon is a track and field combined events contest made up of seven events.
He was born in Paris in 1901. Jean Prouve has become one of the representatives of the modern and functional trend by creating furniture designs that are not overly ostentatious but are friendly and user-friendly.
Erkin Koray, alongside Orhan Gencebay, were the inventors of the electro baglama, the electric version of a traditional Turkish musical instrument related to the lute. Koray was active in the Turkish rock music scene since the late 1950s.
If you wrote one of the most famous novels of modernist literature at the age of twenty-six, there is a high probability that your name is Elias Canetti. The novel Blinding is almost Cannetti's only literary text. Perhaps it will be an exception until the end of time that Canetti will receive the Nobel Prize in Literature for a single novel.
French writer Jean-Christophe Grangé was born in Paris in 1961. As a freelance journalist, he worked for various news agencies and newspapers. He prepared travel-adventure interviews for "Paris-Match" and scientific interviews for "Figaro Magazine". But it was his novelism that made him world famous.
American businessman Getty proved his extraordinary business talent in the oil industry. Despite his competition with very large oil companies, he set out to become a billionaire in the Oil Company.
The story of French athlete Micheline Ostermeyer, who won gold medals in the discus and shot put at the 1948 London Olympics: After retiring from sports in 1950, she became a full-time pianist for fifteen years and then returned to teaching.
After Nazi Germany defeated France in 1940, he opposed the granting of full authority to Philippe Pétain, the leader of the Germany-dependent puppet regime established in Vichy, France, and joined the French Resistance and took part in the resistance ranks under the pseudonym Violette.
