Biographic profiles of the men and women who — for better or for worse — helped write the pages of human history.
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Harry Thaw: The Original Killer Playboy

Napoleon II: Emperor for 20 Days

William Stephenson: Spymaster

Dr Hawley Harvey Crippen: A Notorious Transatlantic Murder Mystery

Henry VIII: England’s Larger Than Life Monarch #sponsored

Brasidas: Sparta's Greatest General #sponsored

The Luddites: Raging Against the Machines

The Dassler Bross: The Family Feud That Created Adidas and Puma

The Industrial Revolution: The Birth of the Modern World

The Great Train Robbery: Britain's Most Infamous Heist

The Fox Sisters: The Frauds Who Helped Found Spiritualism

The Lost Battalion: An Epic True Story of American Courage in World War I

Neanderthal: The Origins, Evolution, and Extinction of Humanity’s Closest Relative

Charles II: The Merry Monarch

John Dee: The Necromancing Navigator of the Elizabethan Age

James Madison: The Genius of Politics

Chuck Berry: The Father of Rock and Roll

Sean Connery: Fame, James Bond, and Controversy

Leopold and Loeb: Criminal Supermen or Dumbest Criminals in History?

Vito Genovese: The Mafia's Deadliest Don

Daisy and Violet Hilton: The Siamese Twins of Vaudeville

EDWARD III: England's Real Life King Arthur

Gene Roddenberry: The Creator of Star Trek

Francis Galton: The Man Who Invented Eugenics

Arthur Conan Doyle: The Creator of Sherlock Holmes

Marilyn Monroe: Hollywood's Ultimate Sex Symbol

George Reeves: The Mysterious Death of Superman

Bob Marley: Legend of Reggae

Erich von Manstein: Hitler's Best General

The Donner Party: America’s Most Gruesome Tale of Survival

Edward the Elder - One Step Closer to a Unified England

Philippe Petain: From French Hero to Nazi Collaborator

Stephen Girard - America’s Forgotten Multi-millionaire

Voltaire - The Best of All Possible Worlds

Diocletian - Rome's First Retired Emperor

David Ben-Gurion: Founding Father of Israel

Sidney Poitier - Breaking Down Hollywood's Color Barrier

Hideki Tojo -The Face of Japanese Militarism in WWII

Charles Cullen - America's Most Notorious Angel of Death

Harper Lee - The Reclusive Author

Joe McCarthy: The Original Conspiracy Theorist

Captain William Kidd - From Privateer to Pirate Hunter to Pirate

Iron Felix Dzerzhinsky - Head of the CheKa, Architect of the Red Terror

John Tyler: The Most Hated President of the 19th Century

J. Edgar Hoover - America’s Top Cop or Chief Inquisitor?

Richard Pryor - The Gold Standard of Comedy

Nathanael Greene - The Fighting Quaker Who Became Washington's Most Steadfast Officer

Dag Hammarskjold: The Man Who Built the United Nations
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