Often eclipsing her work on screen, however, were the alleged romantic liaisons with many of Hollywood's most powerful leading men, including Tyrone Power, Gary Cooper and Frank Sinatra. Sub-par genre pictures with titles like "Sheba and the Gladiator" (1959) were fast becoming Ekberg's...
Peter Dinklage, an American actor born in 1969 in Morristown, New Jersey, is known for his powerful performances that defy the stigmas often associated with his form of dwarfism, Achondroplasia. His journey into acting began at a young age, when he appeared in a fifth-grade production of Th...
While some may say the Walton family is the richest family in the world that would be an inaccurate statement, merely for the fact that another family that has managed for almost forty years to remain out of the spotlight has dominated that spot despite their obscurity. The Sassoon fam...
The Jordanian Royal family is one of few exceptions to the rule which states that small gene pools are to blame for powerful families producing ugly folk. Or perhaps it’s not. There’s a healthy degree of ethnic and class diversity among this powerful family. Which probably makes them the ...
Hatshepsut was one of the most powerful women in the ancient world. She was the fifth pharaoh of the Eighteenth Dynasty of Ancient Egypt and she ruled longer than any other woman in Egyptian history. Hatshepsut was married to her sickly half brother, Thutmose II, and the two of them began...
In the West, before mass communication and literacy, the most powerful mass medium was the church, which reminded worshippers that their souls were in danger and that they would someday be meat for worms. Given all this, they did not exactly need their art to be a bummer too. Today the...
That’s powerful. 14 Shabab missiles A class of long range Iranian missiles that could potentially reach up to 5,000 km, Shahab missile upgrades are shrouded in secrecy but the assumption is that they would be used during a possible invasion by Israel. 13 The Agni missile is a family of ...
Inveraray Castle is considered a must-see on Scotland’s west coast. Home to the Dukes of Argyll for centuries; it took 43 years to build and then was partially destroyed by a fire in 1877. Castle rooms tell the story of the Campbell Clan, once the most powerful clan in Scotland. ...
Why she matters:The London-based stylist joined forces withRogue Onestar Jones in the fall and brought otherworldly glam (GiambattistaValli, Burberry, Gucci) to the $1.05 billion-grossing film's mega press tour. Top looks: Jones, 33, dazzled in a golden Dior gown at theRogue Onepremiere in...
Influence — the power to persuade,advocate for change and imagine better ways of doing things — takes many forms. Nowhere is this more clear than in the magazine’s annual Women of the Year issue, a list of the world’s most influential women written about by other powerful women on the...