Biography of people

• Trevor Milton


  Founder of Nikola who advertised a false prototype of a truck that didn't function and got arrested for 4years in October 2022
• Ötzi the Iceman

  On 19 September 1991, Ötzi was discovered by a mountaineer Erika und Helmut Simon. He was found with half his body sticking out of the ice and has been exhibited at the South Tyrol Museum of Archaeology in Bolzano, Italy since 1998
• Ino Tadataka


  A map creator that spent 17 years mapping Japan by walking 10,000 km. His lifespan = 1745-1818, Age = 73
• Elizabeth Holmes


  Founder and CEO of Theranos was guilty of 3 counts of wire fraud and 1 count of conspiracy to commit wire fraud. She promised to revolutionize the medical industry by running over 240 tests on a single drop of blood, but the company's tech didn't work and gave patients inaccurate results. She was sentenced for 11 years in November 2022
• Sunny Balwani


  10 counts of wire fraud and 2 counts of conspiracy to commit wire fraud. Balwani was found to have misled both investors and patients, and is set to be sentenced on December 7th
• Aaron Douglas


  An American painter, illustrator, and visual arts educator. A major figure in the Harlem Renaissance. Founder the Art Department at Fisk University in Nashville, Tennessee 1944. He taught visual art classes until his retirement 1966. His passion for art derived from admiring his mother's drawings. He was born in Topeka, Kansas. He was asked to create his first murals at Club Ebony 1927
• Aaron Douglas' lifespan

  May 26, 1899 - Feb 3 1979
• Richard Wilson


  • Influential Welsh landscape painter who worked in Britain and Italy
  • Recognised as a pioneer of British art of landscape
  • Became one of the founder members of the Royal Academy (Dec 1768)
• Nicolas Jenson


  Created the first Roman typeface (space-saving typefaces), based on Blackletter and Italian Humanist lettering (1470)
• William Caslon


  Created a new typeface that included more contrast between strokes in each letter form (improving readability) (1734)
• John Baskerville


  Created transitional typefaces with more distinct letterforms (1757)
• Firmin Didot (France) Giambattista Bodoni (Italy)


  Created Modern Serifs with extreme contrast between strokes
• Vincent Figgins


  Created the first slab serif (1815)
• William Caslon IV


  Created the first sans serif type (1816)
• Max Miedinger

  Designed Helvetica (1957)
• Rudolf Hell


  Created the first digital typeface (1968)
• Edward Hopper


  • American painter (1882–1967)
  • Painted Nighthawks and said "unconsciously, probably, I was painting the loneliness of a large city"
  • Painting depicts an all-night diner with three customers sitting at the counter opposite a server, each appear to be lost in thought and disengaged from one another
  • Composition is tightly organized and spare in details, with no entrance to the establishment and no debris on the streets
  • Painting is not a realistic transcription of an actual place
  • His career benefited immensely from his marriage to fellow-artist Josephine Nivison
  • Proficient as a watercolorist and printmaker in etching
• Scott Ewart


  • 32, lives on the Isle of Arran
  • Clocked up more than five million likes on his TikTok account for bringing back Digital cameras as a trend
  • Got into using old cameras during lockdown
  • "I find it quite refreshing going back to something so simple. With older cameras you have to work with them a bit more, to get a good photo or to get the most out of them"
• Katie Glasgow


  • 25, lives in Brooklyn, New York
  • Calls herself "the oldest possible Gen Z"
  • "It looks like memories, because it's blurry and imperfect. It looks more like how we remember things"
• Banksy


  • Recognized as an artist who does not shy from depicting the reality of our modern societies
  • In his version of Nighthawks, the artist depicts a threatening chubby man only wearing Union Jack underwear, pointing angrily at the cracked window of Hopper's dinner
  • Two plastic chairs are scattered on the sidewalk around him, and it appears that he likely threw them in an attempt to break the window
  • This figure potentially represents the angry British working class demanding a seat at the elite's table
• Gottfried Helnwein


  • Austrian artist
  • Created Boulevard of Broken Dreams, which shows a scene late at night in a diner in the USA during the 1950s
  • Outside, the street is dark and empty. Inside, there are three people sitting at the counter, two men and a woman, and there's a barman standing behind the counter
  • The couple on the right are smartly dressed and the woman is laughing, but the man sitting next to her looks worried and unhappy
  • The barman is smiling, but the atmosphere of the painting is bleak and lonely
  • The four people in the painting are all famous American stars from the 20th century: the barman is Elvis Presley, the man on the left is James Dean, the woman is Marilyn Monroe, and the man in the blue suit is Humphrey Bogart
• Into Bondage 


  Enslaved Africans attached to the Americas painting by Aaron Douglas (1936)
• Llyn-y-Cau, Cader Idris


  A painting by Richard Wilson. A lake near the summit of Cadair Idris in North Wales. Wilson suggests we are looking at an untouched paradise (1774)
• The Oxbow


  View from Mount Holyoke, Northampton, Massachusetts, after a Thunderstorm. Cole's interest in the subject probably dates from his 1829–32 trip to Europe (1836)
• The Fighting Temeraire


  The painting depicts the 98-gun HMS Temeraire, one of the last second-rate ships of the line to have played a role in the Battle of Trafalgar, being towed up the Thames by a paddle-wheel steam tug in 1838, towards its final berth in Rotherhithe to be broken up for scrap.
• Edge of Town (Krumau Town Crescent III) 1918


  An oil painting by Egon Schiele. Schiele focuses not on a single houses but on a cluster of houses which, strangely, seem to make up a living organism of its own. He uses thick brushstrokes of warm, heavy, earthy tones; brown, yellow, orange, warm purple, some muddy green which makes the town appear old, uninviting and slightly claustrophobic. If you look up pictures of Krumau you will see that the town is as dreamy and fairytale like as can be, and this is definitely just Schiele’s vision of Krumau.
• Si Vas Para Chile


  Los Huasos Quincheros (1942)
• Kalinka


  Ivan Larionov (1860)
• My Little Town of Belz


  Alexander Olshanetsky & Jacob Jacobs (1932)
• The Isle of Innisfree


  Bing Crosby (1952)
• Bonjour Vietnam & Hello Vietnam 


  Quynh Anh (2006 & 2008)
• Pas Contente


  An official song by Peter Solo - Vaudou Game
• Arturo Toscanini


  The only musician with the integrity and modesty to perform a composition exactly as it was notated in the musical score
•  Satoshi Adachi 


  Prefectural government's tourism promotion of full-time ninjas
• Hakuna matata


  A Swahili phrase which means no worries. The phrase has been popularized in The Lion King. The phrase is in more common use in Zanzibar and Kenya. The phrase is uncommon among native speakers of Swahili in Tanzania, who prefer the phrase “hamna shida” in the north and “hamna tabu” in the south.
• Heather Lewis


  Assistant professor at Troy University who was involved in the 2021 study of dark tourism
• Philip Stone 


  Executive director of the Institute for Dark Tourism Research
• Henk Rogers (Taron Egerton),

  Dutch game designer, after learning about Tetris at a 1988 Las Vegas tradeshow, traveled to Moscow to secure the game’s licensing rights from behind the Iron Curtain.
• The Cold War-era thriller, directed by Jon S. Baird and written by Noah Pink
• Alexey Pajitnov (Nikita Efremov), a software engineer at the Soviet Academy of Sciences who created the original Tetris on a rudimentary Electronika 60 computer.