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."
After America's Civil War, cattle owners needed a way to move millions of Longhorns north. How would they do it? By cowboys moving the herds over trai...
Vasily Zaitsev is a famous and successful Russian sniper.
Bram Stoker creates Dracula the vampire, based on the real life cruelty of Vlad the Impaler.
The English attack Joan's village and she sees horrible events before her family flees.
When we use trees to make things, we produce waste and destroy habitats so we must conserve this natural resource.
We have evidence that parts of the tales published by the Brothers Grimm are based on real people and real places.
Luigi Galvani believes that a frog's leg twitches because of electricity inside the frog while Alessandro Volta believes the electricity comes from ou...
Whitechapel, where the "Ripper murders" occur, is a very poor part of 19th-century London.
Attila, king of the fifth-century Huns, seeking land and empire-building, destroys many towns during his eight-year rule.
Daniel Boone is a legendary frontiersman known for his adventures in the wilderness.
According to the story, the warrior Beowulf is a Geat who lives in the area now-known as southwest Sweden.
Some see Boone's decision to surrender to the Shawnee to protect his men and the fort as a traitorous betrayal.
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