I am so pleased people now recognise the need for our service. It means we can help make children’s lives safer. I have two. The first relates directly to my work: If there’s a hurdle between me and a caged hen, then get over the hurdle to help the hen. She needs me. The second relates to attitude: Being polite, patient and positive will set you on the right path to achieving your dream.

Today, we think it’s a given that your family and community shape the person you become. That once-revolutionary concept was defined and popularized by the world-famous anthropologist Margaret Mead. Before graduating from Columbia University, Mead traveled to Samoa in 1925 to investigate a question of human nature: Was adolescence a struggle due to biology, or because of cultural influences? She spent nine months observing Indigenous society and concluded in Coming of Age in Samoa, her bestselling 1928 book, that culture largely determined one’s adolescent experience. The book was a sensation thanks to its frank descriptions of sexuality, and launched Mead into a long career. Just as important as her scientific work, Mead was an outspoken advocate for women’s equality, racial equality, sexual freedom, and the environment. —KL 86. Maryam MirzakhaniMary Wollstonecraft is the mother of Mary Shelley, writer of Frankenstein. / Culture Club/Getty Images Susie says, ‘We have been welcoming a Countdown audience member, Craig, and his guide dog, Bruce, to the studio for many years now. Through Craig I’ve come to appreciate the enormous difference that Bruce has made to his life, so when I was approached by Guide Dogs to do the training and raise awareness of the My Guide service, I jumped at the chance. To think that an event as harrowing and complex as the Great Depression could be summed up in one picture just doesn’t seem possible. But photographer Dorothea Lange’s Migrant Mother (1936) managed to capture the dread and anxiety of the times. During the 1930s, Lange was working as a photographer for the government’s Resettlement Administration in California, which tasked her with taking pictures of struggling farmers and the conditions they lived in to raise public awareness of their issues and help get aid. The iconic photo features a world-weary mother identified as Florence Owens Thompson, a member of the Cherokee nation, staring off into the distance. It soon found its way into a San Francisco newspaper, along with a damning editorial titled “What Does the ‘New Deal’ Mean To This Mother and Her Children?”

I am most proud of my three children. They are amazing – definitely the leaders of the next generation. I’m also proud of Swiipe Wealth, my initiative designed to raise the level of financial freedom for people. It’s a must, especially for single mothers, not to have to suffer the stress of worrying about money. I’m not a politician, but, as with most actors, we know what our worth is in terms of our public platform and if that helps, it’s great.’Wade also founded Axis, a dance troupe for people with disabilities, and made short films spotlighting different aspects of life with a disability. She died in 2013 at the age of 65 due to complications related to her RA, but she is remembered for using her art to help erase the stigma surrounding disability. “Shame is the big killer of us,” Wade said during a speech in 2010, per The New York Times. “Shame and isolation, not our particular disability.” —OTW 123. Kate Warne History is not always what is seems—regardless of what even the most robust textbooks might say. Take, for example, the work of Rosalind Franklin: The British scientist whose 1952 research was integral to the discovery of the double helix structure of DNA, but who had her research swiped by male colleagues who announced their"discovery" to the world—and won a Nobel Prize for it—without giving Franklin any of the credit.