In 300, Xerxes was a monstrous villain, but the real King of Kings was even worse than what we saw on screen.
Anna Pavlova had a frail appearance that made her an underdog, but she became one of the most powerful forces in the dancing world.
Despite decades of being Baseball’s greatest controversy, Pete Rose finally has a posthumous shot at making it into the Baseball Hall of Fame.
Marcus Crassus was known as “the richest man in Rome”—and when he finally met his end in 53 BC, it was utterly horrifying.
Chilling conspiracies. Jaw-dropping affairs. Disturbing allegations. The legacy of Louis Mountbatten gets darker every day.
Queen Maria Theresa Facts. Maria Theresa fought tooth and nail to keep her power, with her vengefulness leading to a reign full of violence and tragedy.
The Regency was an era of extreme glitz and glamour for the upper echelons of society—and poverty and crisis for everyone else.
Lorenzo de’ Medici surrendered himself to his enemies in a genius power move that no one saw coming.
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.
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