David O'Shea articles

PEOPLE

Lorenzo de’ Medici surrendered himself to his enemies in a genius power move that no one saw coming.

PEOPLE

Claudius has retroactively become one of Ancient Rome’s most admired emperors. Riddled with illness and disability as a child, however, no member of his imperial family expected much from him. But the underestimated upstart would prove himself to be a capable leader with a cunning political mind.

THINGS

In 536 AD, the world plunged into darkness. Long thought to be exaggeration, new evidence suggests it may have been the worst year to be alive.

PEOPLE

Joan of Arc was a young girl who met her moment. From an unassuming peasant background, her religious visions led her directly to the court of a French monarch. But her untimely end was as abrupt and explosive as her rapid rise.

PEOPLE

Even before he altered the course of history, Archduke Franz Ferdinand's twisted life had already been more than dramatic enough to make the history books.

PEOPLE

Joseph P. Kennedy Jr. thought he was going to be president one day. Instead, he became a pilot during WWII—and on August 12, 1944, his mission went awry.

PEOPLE

Bobby Fischer was undoubtedly a chess prodigy—but trouble brewed inside his singular mind.

PEOPLE

Edward I was a brutal king, but his weak spot was his wife, Eleanor of Castile. Her dark side was just as bad as his—if not worse.

PLACES

The Regency was an era of extreme glitz and glamour for the upper echelons of society—and poverty and crisis for everyone else.



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