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Geoffrey Moorhouse: Wide-ranging writer whose subjects ranged from travel and spirituality to cricket and rugby league

The qualities that drove Geoffrey Moorhouse were restlessness and an innate sense of curiosity.

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Konstantin Feoktistov: Cosmonaut who helped set a space altitude record on Voskhod I

Saturday, 28 November 2009

Konstantin Feoktistov was an eminent space engineer and Soviet cosmonaut, who feigned death and went on to make history as a member of the first three-man crew to fly into space, in 1964. Following the launch of Sputnik 1, the first Earth-orbiting artificial satellite, on 4 October 1957, and Yuri Gagarin's first manned space flight, on 12 April 1961, the Soviet Union appeared to be well on top in the space race. Feoktistov was a member of the Sputnik design team.

Mark Glazebrook

Saturday, 28 November 2009

Mark Glazebrook's contribution to Bedford Park (from his E. J. May, not Norman Shaw, house) went further than raising money for the church (Obituary, 26 November 2009), writes Dr D. W. Budworth.

Hisaya Morishige

Saturday, 28 November 2009

Hisaya Morishige, who died on 24 November aged 96, was an actor who became the first recipient of Japan's Order of Culture from the field of popular art.

Abe Pollin

Saturday, 28 November 2009

Abe Pollin, who died on 24 November aged 85, was the owner of the Washington Wizards basketball team. Pollin (pictured right with the NBA championship trophy in 1978) was the NBA's longest-standing owner, who stood out as someone who ran his teams like a family business. He bemoaned the excessive salaries encouraged by the free agency system and said it would have been difficult for him to keep the Wizards if it were not for the NBA's salary cap.

Bury at the christening of her grandson, Charles Villiers, in 1963

Lady Mairi Bury: Chatelaine of Mount Stewart who met Hitler and Von Ribbentrop

Friday, 27 November 2009

The cast of characters in the life of Lady Mairi Bury, member of a remarkable aristocratic family, included both Winston Churchill and Adolf Hitler, as well as a host of major figures in politics and high society.

Hyman Bloom: Abstract expressionist pioneer who was eclipsed by Rothko and Pollock

Friday, 27 November 2009

By chance, two of the founding fathers of American abstract expressionism were born a few miles apart in Tsarist south Latvia in the pogrom-ridden years before the First World War. Both men were from Orthodox Jewish families, both fostered early ambitions to become rabbis, both were brought to the United States as children. There, however, similarities end. The older man, Mark Rothko, né Rothkowitz, was destined to number among the most famous names in 20th century American art, on a par with Jackson Pollock and Willem de Kooning. The other, Hyman Bloom, né Melamed, had faded into artistic obscurity long before his death at the age of 96.

Frank Branston: Journalist who exposed local corruption and became mayor of Bedford

Friday, 27 November 2009

Frank Branston was a brilliant investigative journalist, specialising in local government issues in Bedford and Bedfordshire. He founded his own newspaper, Bedford on Sunday (later Bedfordshire on Sunday), and became Bedford's first directly elected mayor in 2002. He also wrote two novels.

George Miller-Kurakin, far left, and colleagues stage a protest at the Soviet-backed Copenhagen Peace Congress in 1986

George Miller-Kurakin: Anti-communist campaigner who inspired Conservative activists

Thursday, 26 November 2009

Intellectual and visionary, liberal and anti-Communist, George Miller inspired a generation of Conservative activists in the 1980s, when the Soviet Union seemed impregnable. His operations were so extensive that few of his associates knew the full picture.

Mark Glazebrook: remembered by friends and colleagues as ebullient, funny and generous - and a prodigious luncher

Mark Glazebrook: Curator, critic, teacher and dealer

Thursday, 26 November 2009

Mark Glazebrook was a somewhat unlikely person to become a figure so integral to the art world.

Christo and Jeanne-Claude with a model of their work 'Wrapped Reichstag' at an exhibition in July this year

Jeanne-Claude: Artist celebrated with her husband Christo for the pair's large-scale public artworks

Wednesday, 25 November 2009

Jeanne-Claude was the flamboyant half of the symbiotic artistic partnership known as "Christo and Jeanne-Claude".

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