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."
CLICK ON THE BLACK IMAGE TO SEE THE SIGNATURE. This is a facsimile of Beethoven's signature.
Bookcover image of Steven Austin: Empresario of Texas, by Professor Gregg Cantrell.
Stephen F. Austin: Empresario of Texas, by Gregg Cantrell, is the first full-length biography of the "Father of Texas" in more than seventy year...
Parliament requires all newspapers with mastheads to be printed on specially embossed paper, but what if the news gets printed on paper without a mast...
People smuggled liquor into the States on both the Atlantic and the Pacific coasts. This telegram involves the smuggling of liquor into Oregon v...
Bookcover image of The Field Guide to North American Monsters, by W. Haden Blackman.
"The Hound of the Baskervilles" is one of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's most-famous stories featuring Sherlock Holmes. This image depicts the cover-art fo...
Because police and politicians in Chicago were not able to stop all the gang-related crime which was happening in their city, a group of people though...
A group of six people first approached the federal government to try and do what the local police and authorities were unwilling to do in Chicago:&nbs...
Image of the newspaper article: Freemen of Texas - To Arms!!! To Arms!!! "Now is the Day & Now is the Hour." Click on the image for a better view...
On the 21st of October, 1941, Alan Turing and three of his Station X colleagues wrote a secret letter to Prime Minister Winston Churchill. It caused a...
An American Marine found a briefcase on Saipan containing nothing but information regarding Amelia Earhart. Was it her briefcase? If so, how did it ge...
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