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
Rodrigo Borgia, who became Pope Alexander VI, led a life marked by indiscretions and inappropriate behavior (especially for a Pope).
This historic footage - from the 20th of August, 1912 - shows the imperial family at the consecration of Feodorovsky Sobor (the Feodorovsky Cathedral)...
On the heels of his Leonore disappointment, Beethoven also struggled with his personal life.
Allied planes, and the British 8th Army, attack German positions in Africa across a forty-mile front.
Although he joked with his doctors, on 30 March 1981, President Reagan came dangerously close to losing his life to an assassin's bullet.
Ronald Reagan became America's 40th president on January 20, 1981.
On the 12th of June, 1987, President Ronald Reagan visited Berlin.
Rosa Parks brought the civil rights movement fuel to grow with her actions.
Not long after J. Howard Miller - the artist at Westinghouse who created the "We Can Do It!
Sacajawea (Sacagawea) was the only woman with the Corps of Discovery expedition.
On January 6, 1838, Samuel Morse successfully tests an electrical telegraph. So why did it take years longer to send the first message?
For nearly 50 years, scientists around the world have been thinking about, and searching for, a sub-atomic particle called the "Higgs Boson.
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