Many historic rulers have demonstrated the drastic measures they have resorted to in order to protect what they hold dear. However, few have garnered such an infamously cruel and bloodthirsty reputation as Vlad Țepeș, also known as Vlad the Impaler or Vlad III.
Space travel usually promises a return. Not this time. Chrysalis offers something stranger: a one-way ticket spanning lifetimes. Scientists mapped how thousands survive between stars. The journey takes a minimum of four centuries.
Royals like Princess Diana had some infamous marriages, but nothing compares to the nightmare Caroline of Brunswick had to endure. From literally the very beginning of her union with the rakish King George IV, Caroline’s life turned into a soap opera—and the drama only stopped with her tragic, jaw-dropping end. Buckle up for this one.
What are the odds anyone would find these objects? Answer: literally, one in a million. Sometimes the planet crafts something so rare it never repeats—a mountain, a relic, a living fossil, an animal, or a plant species.
At just fourteen, Thomas Nickerson was the youngest crewmember of the whaleship Essex. When the ship was struck and sunk by a whale, he was launched into one of the most grueling sagas of survival in maritime history.
Queen Caroline of Ansbach was the most powerful consort in British history—but she used that power to enact an unspeakably vicious revenge.
Reading was this man’s steady companion. A list of books followed him through jobs, travels, and family life. Each entry added up, leaving behind a legacy as simple as ink on paper.
Like any wealthy family that catches the public’s eye, the Rockefellers had a rather vast closet full of family scandals. Stories of extra-marital affairs, illegitimate children, bigamy, and even cannibalism rocked the Rockefeller world. As a result of these secrets, this family had an obsession with keeping the press and the public on their side. But there was one secret—dating back to the family's origins—that had the potential to bring this family down to its knees.
Of all the “Million Dollar Princesses” from America’s gilded age who married into the old European aristocracy, it was Mary Curzon who achieved the highest rank of all. Although she began as new money, mercantile stock, she rose to the high and controversial title of Vicereine of India—and then ended her life decades too early, in heartbreaking misery.
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