A mortal man (though a son of Zeus), his sheer strength, indomitability and perseverance in adversity immortalized him for all time.

It's hard not to wonder whether the friendships he formed during this war - with young men immortalized as Fin, as Monkey, as the Stag - were not the deepest loves of his life.

How Isaac Newton Worked The man immortalized on the left was behind the three laws of motion and the universal law of gravitation.

One such American visitor was 22-year-old Chris Thompson from Maine, who had put on his black Sid Vicious T-shirt, pulled his long black hair back into a ponytail and made a pilgrimage to the village of Balquhidder and the grave of the man immortalized in fiction as a Robin Hood-esque figure by Sir Walter Scott.

Shortly after being released from Abu Ghraib in 2004, he started the Association of Victims of American Occupation Prisons with several other men immortalized in the Abu Ghraib pictures.

These were not the perilous pairings of young men and women immortalized by Sholom Aleichem, but more sure-fire unions between some of the greatest names in Jewish literature and a host of prominent performers.

The story of the man immortalized in "Out of Africa."