Aleksandr Isayevich Solzhenitsyn (1918 - 2008) was a Russian novelist, historian and political prisoner. Being an outspoken critic of the Soviet Union, he helped shed the light on Gulag labor camp prisons.
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William Barak was an elder of the Wurundjeri people of southeastern Australia, whose portrait by Artur Loureiro hangs in the Museu Nacional de Soares...
Giuseppe (Peppino) Impastato (1948-1978) was a journalist from Sicily. He spent his life fighting against crimes committed by the mafia. He was eventually killed...
Kathrine Switzer (1947 – ) was a writer, television commentator, and North-American athlete, known for being the first woman to run a marathon (the...