Getty Images     It’s this cigarette, this one right here – the first one you light up in the morning. I’ll never give it up, not for...

Getty Images     Odette and Roger had been running the Café Gourmand since the end of the Great War. Another was taking shape on the...

Getty Images     In Paris, Jean d’Halluin had just founded Scorpion Publishing. The editor was proud of his new agency, and had grand...

Getty Images     Werner von Braun was only twenty years old when he joined the Third Reich’s rocket development program. He was a proud...

Getty Images     The new Boeing 377 Stratocruiser had just landed in Tokyo, and two of its VIP passengers were about to begin their...

Getty Images     “Benjamin Cooper” – ever heard that name before? Ring any bells? Probably not, I guess. But there’s a good story behind...

Getty Images     Sonny Liston had been heavyweight champion of the world since 1962. He was the toughest and most intimidating boxer of...

Getty Images     He was the man whose hair defied the laws of physics, who stuck out his tongue in photographs and stroked his mighty...

Getty Images     What makes a master chef? Originally, the title of maître queux  referred to the head cooks who oversaw the kitchens and...

Getty Images     Tonight, Dorothy Lamour was wearing a western-style sequined dress, yet the “Sarong Queen” had made her playing exotic...

Getty Images     Adelaida Yakovlevna Leventon, who would come to be known as Alla Nazimova, was born in Yalta, Crimea. A child of the...

Getty Images     The little Romanov used to love flying her kite in the summertime, when the family would decamp to the Yalta coast. Her...

Getty Images     Peggy Streep was an American chess player, and an activist. Chess was her favourite game. In the corner of her apartment...

Getty Images     My Dalmatian’s name is Koky. I named him. My name’s Henry, and I wanted to introduce him to you. Koky has lots of great...

Getty Images     There was Andrew, whom folks called “Black Bull,” and Charles, or “Red Bone”, and the day ahead would be long for both....

Getty Images     It was November 5th, 1605, and the city of Westminster was deserted. From time to time a cart would emerge from the...

Getty Images     It was five o’clock in the morning when an eager Stephen Smith arrived on his bicycle at the Electra House telegraph...

Getty Images     Exactly two items of gear were needed to practice what the English genteelly called ‘pugilism’ – gloves stuffed with...

Getty Images     Morgan was just sixteen years old, but was pretty fearless for a kid his age. He’d survived many street fights, and had...

Getty Images     In Saint Tropez, on the set of Roger Vadim’s And God Created Woman,  Brigitte was taking a well-earned break. She wore a...