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."
WARNING: THIS CLIP CONTAINS SCENES, AND WORDS, DESCRIBING THE EXPLOITS OF "JACK THE RIPPER," WHO MURDERED SEVERAL LONDON-AREA WOMEN IN 1888.
WARNING: THIS CLIP CONTAINS SCENES, AND WORDS, DESCRIBING THE EXPLOITS OF "JACK THE RIPPER," WHO MURDERED SEVERAL LONDON-AREA WOMEN IN 1888.
WARNING: THIS CLIP CONTAINS SCENES, AND WORDS, DESCRIBING THE EXPLOITS OF "JACK THE RIPPER," WHO MURDERED SEVERAL LONDON-AREA WOMEN IN 1888.
WARNING: THIS CLIP CONTAINS SCENES, AND WORDS, DESCRIBING THE EXPLOITS OF "JACK THE RIPPER," WHO MURDERED SEVERAL LONDON-AREA WOMEN IN 1888.
WARNING: THIS CLIP CONTAINS SCENES, AND WORDS, DESCRIBING THE EXPLOITS OF "JACK THE RIPPER," WHO MURDERED SEVERAL LONDON-AREA WOMEN IN 1888.
A steam-driven locomotive, made in Liverpool, the John Bull arrived in America in August of 1831.
A grandson of Genghis, Kublai became the Great Khan in 1260.
Henry VIII made sure that his son, Edward VI, was educated by Protestants.
Born on September 9, 1828, Leo Tolstoy was the writer of still-famous 19th-century Russian masterpieces. See him in this rare video from the Russian S...
Who was the Buddha, the man who founded a religion followed by around 400 million people? Step back in time to uncover his origins.
Macbeth was a real king of the Scots who ruled in the 11th century.
Part 2 of the animated version of Shakespeare's Macbeth.
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