A celebrated opera singer and lethal duelist, Julie d’Aubigny shattered every rule meant to contain her.
Rose Kennedy watched as dark twists of fate picked off her children one by one—but one tragedy hit her so much harder than any of their deaths.
There's a reason history wants us to forget the twisted tale of Olga of Kiev.
Albrecht Dürer transformed art through his engravings, which he mass printed, spreading his name across Europe.
On his deathbed, Tim Richmond reached out to his fans by having a plane fly over the Daytona Speedway with an utterly heartbreaking message.
When the British king hopeful Charles Stuart died in 1788, one detail about his death was so humiliating, his brother made up a bizarre story.
Jean-François Champollion was the scholar who used the Rosetta Stone to decode ancient Egyptian hieroglyphs, giving voice to a lost civilization.
In his short life, Robert Kennedy Sr. had a career that transformed him from a hard-edged prosecutor to a moral leader in a divided nation.
As the youngest of six children, Alfred The Great was never supposed to become king, but he snatched the throne from his own family.
The legendary Roald Amundsen was a master of arctic exploration—but his expertise still couldn’t save him from a chilling fate.
Philip IV couldn't outrun his demons and his disaster of a personal life. They not only destroyed his family, but also his nation and empire.
John D. Rockefeller was, by many metrics, the richest person in history—but there was a lot more to this fascinating man than dollars and cents.
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