Margaret Re, University of Maryland, Baltimore County
Knoll is best known for transforming the design of America's corporate offices. But she was also on the front lines of a State Department effort to promote American ingenuity and capitalism abroad.
There seems be an attractive quality to things that are ostensibly unhealthy or dangerous.
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Edgar Allen Poe, Sigmund Freud and cognitive scientists have all wrestled with the human tendency to behave in ways that are irrational and self-defeating.
Elder statesman: George H W Bush with the former first lady in 2008.
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Petyarre, who won the Telstra prize for Indigenous art in 1996, has died in Alice Springs.
Australian crime fiction author Peter Corris published 102 novels in lifetimes, including 52 centred on the private investigator Cliff Hardy.
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Charles Blackman forged an urbanised image of Australia that for most, was more familiar than the mythic landscapes of Sidney Nolan or Arthur Boyd. Yet though familiar, it remains uncomfortable.
Aretha Franklin performing in 1978. The gospel singer died in Detroit on Thursday aged 76.
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South African-born composer Stanley Glasser's musical legacy is in many ways unknown in his motherland which he left under political duress in 1963, and awaits critical engagement.
Winston Ntshona in ‘Sizwe Banzi is dead’.
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Kate Spade has been found dead in New York, age 55. Her handbags, first released in the early-1990s, introduced young professional women to affordable luxury.
Reducing Madikizela’s entire life and legacy to her relationship with Mandela has more to do with patriarchal tropes about powerful women than reality.
Stephen Hawking at Gonville & Caius College, Cambridge in 2015.
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Hawking's most famous book, A Brief History of Time, sold 10 million copies and was translated into 40 languages, skyrocketing to the top of the bestseller lists in the US and UK.