People who change the world may, or may not, be famous in their own lifetimes. Often it takes years for others to understand forward-thinking contributions. This collection introduces you to some of the world's most-famous people
Dostoevsky completes his novel just in time and continues to gamble until he overcomes that addiction; he then focuses on writing novels. He dies soo...
Before her death, Thomas promises his wife that he will never marry again and he will care for their daughters.
Meet the senior officers of Titanic's fatal voyage. What are their responsibilities?
Even though Elizabeth avoids Mary in life, they are bound by death with adjoining graves.
Before John Wilkes Booth plans an assassination, he plans to kidnap the President and "carry him off" to Richmond, Virginia..
Samuel Clemens, writing as Mark Twain, creates a character called Huckleberry Finn. Huck is based on a real person called Tom Blankenship.
Thomas builds Monticello on his family's land in Virginia.
Hexavalent chromium (Chromium VI), a cancer-causing chemical used by Pacific Gas & Electric Company in Hinkley, poisoned the groundwater of the co...
Even as he lies wounded, the president tries to protect his assassin.
Learn about Robert E. Lee and the famous military leaders for the Confederate States of America.
Learn about Ulysses S. Grant and the other famous Union military leaders.
Churchill, Truman, and Stalin plan to meet in the Potsdam suburb of Berlin in July 1945 to determine the political fate of Europe.
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