David HallbergThe first ever American invited to be a premier dancer in Moscow’s Bolshoi Ballet, David Hallberg was born in Rapid City, South Dakota and “found inspiration through the films of Fred Astaire”. Hallberg has over 10,000 followers on Twitter and trained at the Arizona Ballet School, the Paris Opera Ballet School and the American Ballet Theatre. He has been described by The New York Times as “represent[ing] a physical idea the way that Michelangelo’s David did, a certain peak of physical perfection”.

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Lee Miller (Lady Penrose, born Elizabeth Miller, 1907 – 1977)
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Lee Miller (Lady Penrose, born Elizabeth Miller, 1907 – 1977)

One of the only female professional photographers accredited as an official US war correspondent during World War II, Lee Miller was photographed sitting in Hitler’s very own bathtub in Munich on the day he committed suicide in Berlin. The Roll Call – WILDCARDS

Terry Deary
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Terry Deary

Best known for his Horrible Histories series, Deary has sold over 25 million books in over 40 languages but was described by David Starkey as a “parasite”. This Sunderland born butcher’s son is the tenth most borrowed author in British libraries yet views historians as “seedy and devious”. Schools, he has commented, have “no relevance […]