Gjon Mili was an American photographer born in 1904 in Korçë, Manastir Vilayet, which was then part of the Ottoman Empire. He studied at Gheorghe Lazăr National College in Bucharest. Mili passed away ...

(Gjon Mili/Getty Images; Colorization by Marina Amaral) On January 18, 1944, the Metropolitan Opera House rocked to a sound it had never heard before. In the words of a reporter in attendance ...