We may know about a famous person's accomplishments, but what do we know about THEM? What is the human-interest story in THEIR lives? This biography collection features the stories behind the lives of some famous (and not-so-famous) individuals.
Beethoven loved nature. He loved walking through the countryside. He enjoyed leaving the city for the country every summer (as he was able).
When the U.S. was finally able to send a teacher into space, successfully, more than 20 years had passed since Christa McAuliffe's tragic death aboard...
A Brooklyn penny-candy-store owner (named Morris Michtom) was so intrigued by a 1902 political cartoon (featuring Theodore Roosevelt with a bear cub) ...
Nellie Bly did not let the challenges of being a woman stop her in her quest to inform the world of injustices being done.
On the 21st of August, 1831, Nat Turner led a slave rebellion in Virginia.
The body of "Bloody Bill" Anderson, depicted with revolver-in-hand.
Sir John Hurt, who died on 25 January 2017, portrayed ''The Elephant Man.'' When thinking about character education, we'd do well to examine the life ...
In 1968, the idea of Glasnost (openness and transparency within government institutions) and Perestroika (restructuring of Soviet economic and politic...
This image depicts "The Green Hornet" - a B-24 used in the Pacific theater during WWII.
When Joseph Stalin came to power, after the death of Vladimir Lenin, he decided to force a monumental change in the way people in the Soviet Union rai...
Who were the Huns? What kind of soldiers were they? How did they accomplish so much under the leadership of Atilla?
In his autobiography, Yeats tells us how he came to pen this still-loved poem about Innisfree, an uninhabited island in Lough Gill (located in County ...
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