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Michelangelo di Lodovico Buonarroti Simoni (March 6, 1475 February 18, 1564), commonly known as Michelangelo, was an Italian Renaissance painter, sculptor, architect and poet. Despite making few forays beyond the arts, his versatility in the disciplines he took up was of such a high order that he is often considered a contender for the title of the archetypal Renaissance man, along with his rival and fellow Florentine Leonardo da Vinci.Michelangelo's output in every field during his long life was prodigious; when the sheer volume of correspondence, sketches and reminiscences that survive is also taken into account, he is the best-documented artist of the 16th century. Two of his best-known works, the Pietà and the David, were sculpted in his late twenties to early thirties. Despite his low opinion of painting, Michelangelo also created two of the most influential fresco paintings in the history of Western art: the scenes from Genesis on the ceiling and The Last Judgement on the altar wall of the Sistine Chapel in Rome. Later in life he designed the dome of St Peter's Basilica in the same city and revolutionised classical architecture with his invention of the giant order of pilasters.Uniquely for a Renaissance artist, two biographies were published of Michelangelo during his own lifetime. One of them, by Giorgio Vasari, proposed that he was the pinnacle of all artistic achievement since the beginning of the Renaissance, a viewpoint that continued to have currency in art history for centuries. In his lifetime he was also often called Il Divino ("the divine one"), an appropriate sobriquet given his intense spirituality. One of the qualities most admired by his contemporaries was his, a sense of awe-inspiring grandeur, and it was the attempts of subsequent artists to imitate Michelangelo's impassioned and highly personal style that resulted in the next major movement in Western art after the High Renaissance, Mannerism...........................
Sir Arthur Charles Clarke (born December 16, 1917) is a British author and inventor, most famous for his science-fiction novel 2001: A Space Odyssey, and for collaborating with director Stanley Kubrick on the film of the same name. Clarke is the last surviving member of what was sometimes known as the "Big Three" of science fiction, which included Robert A.Heinlein and Isaac Asimov
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Dame Vivienne Westwood DBE (born Vivienne Isabel Swire in Tintwistle, Cheshire, on 8 April 1941) is an English fashion designer largely responsible for modern punk and new wave fashions.She is linked with the Sex Pistols via Malcolm McLaren and their SEX/Seditionaries boutique on King's Road, in London during the 1970s
Steve Fossett (born April 22, 1944, in Jackson, Tennessee) is a United States aviator and adventurer known for his appetite to set world records. Fossett, who made his fortune in American financial markets, is best known for his five world record non-stop circumnavigations of the Earth: as a long-distance solo balloonist, as a sailor, and as a solo airplane pilot. Fossett has set 116 records in five different sports, 76 of which still stand as of September 2006.[1]Fossett grew up in Garden Grove, California. In 1966 he graduated from Stanford University with a BA. In 1968 he graduated with a MBA from The Olin School of Business at Washington University in St. Louis, Missouri and today is on the Board of Trustees. Fossett is a fellow of the Royal Geographical Society and The Explorers ClubPerlan Team Prepares for 2006 Flying Season in ArgentinaInto the Stratosphere - Without an Engine
Tuesday, August 29th, 2006New world glider altitude record set by Fossett and Enevoldson in Argentina
50,671 feet (15,447 m) achieved by ‘Perlan’ - the first ever glider flight into the earth’s stratosphere
Previous record shattered by 1,662 ft (507m)
August 29, 2006 - El Calafate, Argentina:Wearing NASA spacesuits and flying along the crest of the Andes, pilot Steve Fossett (USA b. 1944) and co-pilot Einar Enevoldson (USA b. 1932) took their ‘Perlan’ high performance research glider on the world’s first stratrospheric glider flight yesterday - surfing the Andean ‘mountain wave’ to a height of 50,699 feet (15,453 m) while breaking the previous record by 1,662 ft (507m) . The old record 49,009 ft (14,940 m) by Robert Harris was set in 1986 in California.Global FlyerCompilation of the record-breaking fl... Compilation of the record-breaking flight and various test flights, illustrating the first solo, round the world, non stop, and non refuelled flight. The Virgin Atlantic GlobalFlyer was designed by Burt Rutan and built by Scaled Composites. It was piloted by Steve Fossett who took off from Salina, Kansas on 28th Febraury 2005 for the 67 hour flight.
Betweeen February 7, 2006 -- February 11, 2006, Fossett and GlobalFlyer set a record for the longest flight in history: 26,389.3 miles. http://www.virginatlanticglobalflyer.com.
....By Tillie Fong, Rocky Mountain News
November 3, 2007
Missing aviator and adventurer Steve Fossett was honored in absentia Friday night at the Wings Over the Rockies Air and Space Museum's 2007 Spreading Wings Gala.
"We want to go ahead and honor Steve Fossett for what he represents: the spirit of adventure in all of us," said Greg Anderson, the museum's president.Fossett's wife, Peggy Fossett, accepted the Spreading Wings Award on his behalf."Steve and I love Colorado, so it is especially nice to celebrate his accomplishments in a place we call home," she said in a written statement before the ceremony. "I would like to thank Wings Over the Rockies and our many friends throughout aviation and Colorado for celebrating Steve's love for aviation and adventure. Thank you (for) sharing his passion for spreading wings."This is the fifth year the award has been given by the museum. It is awarded to a person who has made accomplishments in aviation and also inspires and educates young people. Past recipients include Burt Rutan, who designed the record- breaking plane Voyager, and Chuck Yeager, the first pilot to fly faster than sound.Fossett, 63, was reported missing Sept. 3 after he failed to return from a flight over the Nevada desert, and has not been found. He is known for making the first solo balloon flight around the world in 2002, and the first solo nonstop global airplane flight in 2005.Dick Rutan, one of the co-chairs of the 2007 Spreading Wings Gala, was among the many pilots who participated in the initial search for Fossett after he disappeared."There was no trace, nothing," Rutan said Friday. "How he was able to go on a little plane, fly out and totally disappear, remains a singular mystery to all of us. It was a very sad thing."The Civil Air Patrol in Nevada formally suspended its search for Fossett on Oct. 2, but a privately funded effort continues.CHICAGO, Nov. 26 -- The wife of millionaire adventurer Steve Fossett, who disappeared while flying his plane in September in rugged Western terrain, asked a court Monday to declare him legally dead.
"As painful as it is for Mrs. Fossett, other members of the family and his many friends, it is time to initiate this process," lawyer Michael A. LoVallo said.
The request, filed in Cook County Circuit Court, was a step toward resolving the legal status of Fossett's estate. Court papers describe the estate as "vast, surpassing eight figures in liquid assets, various entities and real estate."
Fossett, 63, disappeared Sept. 3 after taking off in a single-engine plane from an airstrip near Yerington, Nev., heading toward Bishop, Calif.
According to the petition, filed on behalf of Peggy V. Fossett, Steve Fossett was on a pleasure flight.
Pronounced Dead
