The Journey
Long before modern equipment and satellite navigation, he was pushing the boundaries of human exploration. In 1888, he led the first successful crossing of Greenland's ice sheet, and a few years later, he deliberately allowed his ship to become...
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Known as the “Oracle of Omaha,” he built one of the world's most successful investment companies, Berkshire Hathaway, through decades of patient investing and an unusually disciplined approach to business. Along the way, he became one of the wealthiest...
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Few artists have changed the way we see the world quite as dramatically. Over a career spanning more than 70 years, he constantly experimented, abandoning styles he had mastered to explore entirely new ways of creating. Pablo Picasso became...
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At just 25 years old, he directed Citizen Kane, a film that would influence generations of filmmakers. But much of his career was shaped by limited budgets, studio interference, and the challenge of making ambitious work without unlimited resources....
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Before becoming president, he had been responsible for planning one of the largest and most complicated military operations in history: the Allied invasion of Europe during World War II. It required an extraordinary amount of preparation, even though everyone...
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