World of faces

Kim Kardashian – actress and fashion model

Kim Kardashian is an American reality TV star, actress and fashion model. She is the participant of the seventh season of the reality show Dancing with the Stars and Keeping Up with the Kardashians.
Kimberly Kardashian West was born on October 21, 1980 in Los Angeles, California. She is the daughter of a prominent lawyer Robert Kardashian and socialite Kris Jenner, née Houghton. Kim’s mother filed for divorce in 1989 and in 1991 married former famous athlete Bruce Jenner, who later became Caitlyn Jenner.
Kim grew up in Beverly Hills. She attended Marymount High School. As a school girl she worked for Movie Tunes, her father’s music promotional company.
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Cleveland Amory – American activist and writer

Cleveland Amory was an American writer, who devoted his life to defending animal rights. He is best known as the author of books about his cat Polar Bear, whom Amory saved on Christmas 1977 in Manhattan.
Cleveland Amory was born on September 2, 1917 in Nahant, Massachusetts to an old Boston family.
Amory attended Harvard University, where he became editor of The Harvard Crimson. After graduation he became the youngest editor ever to join The Saturday Evening Post.
During the Second World from 1941 to 1943 Amory served in the US Army military intelligence. He was one of the founders of The Humane Society of the United States (HSUS). In 1967 he founded the Fund for Animals. Also from 1987 until his death in 1998 he was a president of the New England Anti-vivisection Society (NEAVS).
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Zelda and Scott Fitzgerald – so easy to be loved, so difficult to love

The nickname “king and queen of Jazz Age” was given to them by journalists. Their bright, stormy life was the embodiment of “roaring 20s” and uneven rhythm of their love was very similar to jazz. But at one point the music for Zelda and Scott ended.
F. Scott Fitzgerald was a long-awaited first-born in a poor Irish family. His father was an ordinary salesman. Mother’s legacy improved things and Scott was able to go to Princeton. The prestigious university, however, was not the purpose of his life. He wanted to play football, Princeton had a strong team, or play on the stage, there was a great theater club at the university. However, a week after the start of the course he was kicked out of the football team and never joined theater club because it was only for excellent students. Scott, alas, did not shine at the university, and in general did not like all those wealthy mama and daddy’s sons, with whom he had to study. After a while he was expelled from Princeton. It was in 1917, at the height of World War I, and Fitzgerald decided to go to the front. However, Scott was sent to the town of Montgomery, Alabama.
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Jiang Qing – girl from the village

American writer Agnes Smedley was a witness of the meeting of Mao and the young actress Lang Ping (her real name was Jiang Qing). In 1937 she attended a “special area” controlled by the army of 44-year-old Mao Zedong, one of the leaders of the Communist Party of China.
Lang Ping was a pretty girl, who recently arrived from Shanghai. She came there when her second husband, a popular actor, attempted to commit suicide. The actress left Tang because she had an affair with the director. Shanghai newspapers showed actor and director as victims of a cunning peasant woman.
Lang Ping was born in Shandong Province in a family of small entrepreneur. Her mother was the sixth wife of Lee and, according to Chinese tradition, the most powerless. Soon, unable to withstand the abuse, she left the family. Lang Ping was raised by her grandparents.
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Mel Galley – British guitarist

Mel Galley was a British guitarist and songwriter. He was a member of the groups Whitesnake, Trapeze, Finders Keepers and Phenomena.
Melville Galley was born on March 8, 1948 in Cannock, Staffordshire.
Galley’s name first came to the fore in the 1960s when he played with Glenn Hughes (later of Deep Purple and Black Sabbath) and drummer Dave Holland (later of Judas Priest) in Finders Keepers. They formed the nucleus of Trapeze and recorded albums Medusa (1969) and You Are the Music … We’re Just the Band (1970). Galley was the only constant member of Trapeze.
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Jack Nicholson – one of the greatest actors

Jack Nicholson is an American actor, film director, screenwriter and producer. He is considered one of the greatest actors in film history. He was nominated for Oscar award 12 times. He is one of only two actors nominated for Oscar for best role every decade since the 1960s (the second – Sir Michael Caine). In 1994 he became one of the youngest actors awarded American Institute of Motion Picture Arts award for lifetime achievement. Nicholson has won numerous awards, including three Oscar and BAFTA awards, seven Golden Globes, a six-time winner of the US National Board of Review Award and winner of the Screen Actors Guild Award.
John Joseph Nicholson (his real name) was born on April 22, 1937 in New York. Jack, like his peers, was the last representative of the generation that grew up without a TV influence. His mother was dancer and singer June Frances Nicholson (1918-1963; stage name – June Nilson).
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Ari Up – Ariane Daniela Forster

Ari Up was a British rock singer, best known as a founder and lead singer of the punk band The Slits.
Ariane Daniela Forster was born on January 17, 1962 in Munich, Germany and grew up in London. Her father Frank Forster was a German singer, artist and painter, the son of a wealthy owner of the newspaper, and her mother Nora had to do with the rock industry: she was well acquainted with Jimi Hendrix, and dated Chris Spedding for three years. It is known that Jon Anderson was the godfather of the girl. Later, Nora married John Lydon, former frontman of the Sex Pistols. Joe Strummer of The Clash taught Ariane play the guitar.
In January 1977 fourteen-year-old Forster founded a girl’s punk band The Slits. Group members were Palmolive (drums), Kate Korus (guitar) and Suzi Gutsy (bass guitar), who was replaced by Tessa Pollitt.
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John Glenn – American astronaut and senator

John Glenn was the first US astronaut to orbit the Earth, test pilot, Marine Corps pilot during World War II and the Korean War, Senator from Ohio.
John Herschel Glenn Jr. was born on July 18, 1921 in Cambridge, Ohio. His parents had two other children who died in infancy, and they later adopted his sister Jean.
He graduated from primary and secondary schools in New Concord, then attended Muskingum University.
In 1943 he joined Marine Corps. During World War II John made 59 sorties, flew the F4U Corsair over the Marshall Islands.
When peace came, Glenn remained in the corps, serving as a fighter pilot and then as a flight instructor. In 1952, Major Glenn was sent to Korea. He participated in the Korean War and then graduated from the Test Pilot School.
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Ernesto Che Guevara – Great Comandante

Ernesto Che Guevara was a Latin American revolutionary and the trusted adviser of Cuban premier Fidel Castro. He used nickname Che to emphasize his Argentine origin. He became one of the main persons of the Cuban revolution, and remains a symbol of commitment to ideals.
Ernesto Rafael Guevara de la Serna was born on June 14, 1928 in Rosario, Argentina. He had two brothers and two sisters. Ernesto was keen on chess. At the age of 11 he became interested in Cuba, when Cuban chess player Capablanca came to Buenos Aires.
At 19 Guevara entered the medical school of the University of Buenos Aires.
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John James Audubon – American naturalist

John James Audubon was an America’s greatest naturalist, ornithologist and animal artist, author of Birds of America (1827-1838). The first environmental organization in the world National Audubon Society was named in his honor.
John James Audubon was born on April 26, 1785 in Les Cayes, Haiti. He was the illegitimate son of a French adventurer. His mother died soon after her son’s birth. John and his father came to France in 1794.
In 1803, John came to America to become the manager of his father’s lead mines in Pennsylvania. However, he was interested in drawing and decided to become an artist.
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