We may know about a famous person's accomplishments, but what do we know about THEM? What is the human-interest story in THEIR lives? This biography collection features the stories behind the lives of some famous (and not-so-famous) individuals.
Brashear is one of only seven enlisted men with oral histories profiled by the U.S. Naval Institute.
Kitchener and his soldiers defeat the Mahdist, destroy The Mahdi's tomb and desecrate his body.
In September 1898, Major General Horatio Herbert Kitchener leads a force of Anglo-Egyptian soldiers against the Mahdist and forces them into the deser...
Paul Revere warns colonial soldiers, who stand their ground at Lexington against the British.
Bobby expresses his political policy in speeches - do right even when it is not popular.
Rick "Hard Core" Rescoria jumps off a helicopter to rescue soldiers; on 9/11 he dies helping others escape from 2 World Trade Center.
Isaac Cline, Galveston weatherman, notices rising water and high tides; he sends a telegram to Washington DC to report flooding.
Jesse's close friend, Robert Ford, shoots him in the head in his own house while his family is there.
Within ten years after Wallace's death, Scotland is free and Robert the Bruce becomes king.
Roger Williams and Anne Hutchinson both believe in a democratic society, with freedom to worship as one chooses.
Eighty years later, on the anniversary of their brutal execution, the Russian peoplelay the Romanov family to rest in St. Petersburg.
Former Tsar Nicholas, his wife, his son, his four daughters, and four of their assistants are shot in a cellar in their exiled home.
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