The Genius Who Beat Ferrari and Porsche to the World's Fastest Car How Alois Ruf built a 211-mph yellow streak in his garage... and beat the world. By Sam Smith
During her all-too-brief life, Marilyn Monroe overcame a difficult childhood to become one of the world's biggest and most enduring sex symbols. During her career, Monroe's films grossed more than $200 million. Monroe died of a drug overdose on August 5, 1962, at only 36 years old.
By Ananda Shorey, Associated Press | August 26, 2004. PHOENIX -- Elisabeth Kubler-Ross, a psychiatrist who revolutionized the way the world looks at terminally ill patients with her book On Death and Dying and later as a pioneer for hospice care, died Tuesday of natural causes at her Scottsdale home. She was 78.