Kahlo's paintings are concerned with medical imagery, which is presented in terms of pain and hurt, featuring Kahlo bleeding and displaying her open wounds. Kahlo's medical paintings are especially dealing with childbirth and miscarriage and have a strong sense of guilt, of a sense of living one's life at the expense of another who has ...

Władysław Szpilman and his family were forced to move into a 'Jewish quarter' – the Warsaw Ghetto – on 31 October 1940. Szpilman managed to find work as a musician to support his family, which included his mother, father, brother Henryk, and two sisters, Regina and Halina. He first worked at the Nowoczesna Cafe, where the patrons sometimes ignored his ...

Due to his poetic lyrics, distinctive voice, wild personality, performances, and the dramatic circumstances surrounding his life and early death, Morrison is regarded by music critics and fans as one of the most iconic and influential frontmen in rock music history. To this day Morrison is widely regarded as the prototypical rock star: surly, sexy, scandalous, mysterious. ...

Hemingway arrived home in Ketchum on June 30, and he deliberately shot himself with his favorite shotgun in the early morning hours of July 2, 1961. He had unlocked the basement storeroom where his guns were kept, gone upstairs to the front entrance foyer, and shot himself with the double-barreled shotgun that he had used ...

On 15 November 1938, five days after the devastation of 'Kristallnacht' in Germany, a delegation of British, Jewish, and Quaker leaders appealed, in person, to the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, Neville Chamberlain. Among other measures, they requested that the British government permit the temporary admission of unaccompanied Jewish children, without their parents. The Cabinet debated the issue ...

As a child, Hepburn joined her mother on several 'Votes For Women' demonstrations. The Hepburn children were raised to exercise freedom of speech and encouraged to think and debate on any topic. Hepburn said she realized from a young age that she was the product of two very remarkable parents, and credited her enormously lucky upbringing ...

Shit is a powerful word. Just think of all theconcepts and ideas you can communicate with it. Shitmay just be the most powerful word in the English language.Consider: You can be shit faced, be shit out of luck,or have shit for brains. With a little effort youcan get your shit together, find a place for ...

Ronald Reagan was known to joke frequently during his lifetime, displayed humor throughout his presidency. His numerous jokes and one-liners have been labeled classic and legendary. Among the most notable of his jokes was one regarding the Cold War. As a microphone test in preparation for his weekly radio address in August 1984, he made the following joke: My fellow ...

Looked dead, didn't I? Well, I wasn't, but it wasn't for lack of trying I can tell you that. Actually, Bill's last bullet put me in a coma, a coma I was to lie in for four years. When I woke up, I went on what the movie advertisements referred to as a roaring rampage ...

Our entertainment-saturated Society helps feed all sorts of illusions about reality. The fantasy of the perfect romantic and sexual relationship, the perfect lifestyle, and the perfect body all prove unattainable because the reality never lives up to the expectation. The worst fallout comes in the marriage relationship. When two people can not live up to each ...

While Dalida was professionally very successful, her private life was marred by a series of failed relationships and personal problems. In January 1967, she took part in the Sanremo Festival with her new lover, Italian singer, songwriter, and actor Luigi Tenco. The song he presented was 'Ciao amore ciao' ('Bye Love, Bye'), which he sang together with ...