Meet some of the world's most-colorful characters in this collection. From Roman times to the Spanish Main, these individuals were famous in their own lifetimes and later, when their stories became the "stuff of legends."
Initially working for Alvaro Prieto, a contraband smuggler, Pablo Escobar becomes a drug smuggler and is a millionaire, from the illegal trade, by the...
Pablo Escobar's family views him, and his death, very differently from most people.
In hiding, after he escapes from confinement, Pablo Escobar is separated from the people he loves the most - his family.
Accumulating enormous sums of money, from illegal drug-trading, Pablo Escobar shares the wealth with poor people, making him a local hero.
When Colombia's Minister of Justice, Rodrigo Lara Bonilla, is murdered, Pablo Escobar gets the blame.
When Colombian presidential candidate Luis Carlos Galán was murdered, the police suspected he was killed by (or on the orders of) Pablo Escobar.
At first Colombian authorities allow Pablo Escobar to have an easy life, at La Catedral (his place of "confinement"), but when Pablo hears rumors of a...
While earning his living from the illegal drug trade, Pablo Escobar was becoming a leader of Colombia's poor and downtrodden people.
Alexander Farnese, the Duke of Parma, is to help the Armada with light fast ships near Dunkirk, but Dutch forces repel him.
Barrie begins Peter Pan in 1903 because he promises Charles Frohman a new play for Maude Adams; Peter is a character he has used before.
Because Philip II of Spain is angry about Mary's execution and Britain's aid to the Dutch, he creates an Armada to go to war with Britain.
View pictures of crop circles taken by Lucy Pringle, a British photographer, researcher and lecturer.
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