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."
As Chinas Great Wall was falling into ruins, a baby named Temujen was born.
For the first time in Mongolian history, a new title was given to the ruler of a new nation: Universal Ruler of all men - or - Genghis Khan.
Temujen awarded status based on ability, not birth.
Undaunted by the Great Wall, Genghis Khan and his army went around it.
The law of the steppes allowed people to take what they wished - but that insured fighting between tribes.
On the 8th of June, 1924, George Mallory and Andrew (Sandy) Irvine were attempting to reach the summit of Mt.
Johannes Gutenberg invented one of "the machines that made us."
When the Romans first built Hadrian's Wall, in the northern part of Britannia (England), they also constructed many different "milecastles" along its ...
Irish school children, in the 1960s, tell the story of St. Patrick (of St. Patrick's Day).
For more than 150 years, people have claimed to see a creature in the Himalayan Mountains which Sherpas call Yeti.
Scientists working for Hitler's Third Reich continued to work, after the war, but for the United States. Historians believe that the U.S. rocket progr...
WARNING: THIS CLIP CONTAINS SCENES, AND WORDS, DESCRIBING THE EXPLOITS OF "JACK THE RIPPER," WHO MURDERED SEVERAL LONDON-AREA WOMEN IN 1888.
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