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Lola Montez was the 19th century's original 'celebrity', known throughout Europe and the United States for her theatrical performances and scandalous personal life. In this intriguing work, Montez herself recounts her life in her own words. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright ...

Annie Smith Peck is one of the most accomplished women of the twentieth century that you have never heard of. Peck was a scholar, educator, writer, lecturer, mountain climber, suffragist, and political activist. She was a feminist and an independent thinker who refused to let gender stereotypes stand in her way. Peck gained fame in 1895 when she first climbed the Matterhorn at the age of forty-five – not for her daring alpine feat, but because she climbed wearing pants. Fifteen years later, she was the first climber ever to conquer Mount Huascarán (21,831 feet) in Peru. In 1911, just...

Esta es una mirada compleja a un hombre complejo, una moderna combinacion de Thomas Edison, Henry Ford, Howard Hughes y Steve Jobs. Su nombre es Elon Musk, y es el empresario que esta detras de Tesla Motors, SpaceX y SolarCity, empresas innovadoras en sus respectivos campos --la automovilistica, la aeronautica y la energia-- con las que Musk esta consiguiendo hacer realidad lo que hasta hace poco no era mas que ciencia ficcion Nacido en Sudafrica, Musk tuvo una infancia dificil de nino prodigio con la mirada puesta en Estados Unidos. En cuanto pudo, cruzo medio mundo para estudiar en...

Daring, flashy, innovative, volatile--no matter what they call him, Zlatan Ibrahimovic is one of soccer's brightest stars. A top-scoring striker and captain of the Swedish national team, he has dominated the world's most storied teams, including Ajax, Juventus, Inter Milan, Barcelona, AC Milan, and Paris Saint-Germain. But his life wasn't always so charmed. Born to Balkan immigrants who divorced when he was a toddler, Zlatan learned self-reliance from his rough-and-tumble neighborhood. While his father, a Bosnian Muslim, drank to forget the war back home, his mother's household was engulfed...