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."
Gen. Jos' de Urrea tells James Fannin and his men they can surrender at Goliad without retribution. Santa Anna orders them executed. The Goliad massac...
Grendel is a monster, possibly a troll, attacking Heorot, the King's mead hall, every night killing some of its residents.
To avenge her son's death, Grendel's sea-hag mother kills Heorot's residents until Beowulf stops her.
When Abe Lincoln was eight years old, he moved with his family to a settlement in Indiana. It was there that he lost his mother, Nancy Hanks Lincoln, ...
The gunfight on Fremont Street does not settle matters between the two sides, and more shootings and killings occur.
During the afternoon of October 26th, 1881, the famous gunfight occurs in Tombstone between the lawmen and the Cowboys.
Begun in AD 122, Hadrian's Wall is a barrier that protectsRoman Britain from invaders.
Hawaiian ali'i (noble) ohana (families) traced their origins back to great leaders from the mythic past. And those connections were made th...
Paris falls in love with Helen and abducts her. Sparta's King Menelaus is already Helen's husband, and talks the Greeks into going to war with Troy to...
Heorot is the Danish King Hrothgar's mead-hall, which Beowulf defends against the monster Grendel.
Threatening the Earps with a rifle, Ike Clanton breaks Tombstone's law against having guns in town.
Inspector Fred Abberline is the lead detective on the Jack-the-Ripper cases.
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