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.
Alexander Solzhenitsyn's novel about life as a prisoner in a Stalinist forced-labor camp, in Siberia's GULAG, is based onhis own experience.
On a 20-kilometer estate, about 200 miles northwest of Bogot, Pablo Escobar created a private world for himself and his family.
WARNING - THE BEGINNING OF THIS CLIP, FROM A DOCUMENTARY ABOUT PABLO ESCOBAR AND HIS FAMILY, CONTAINS LANGUAGE NOT SUITABLE FOR CHILDREN.
Pablo Picasso, the famous Spanish artist, died on April 8, 1973 while entertaining friends at dinner. Learn about the man who had a long and a prolifi...
Paul Fussell saw action in Europe during World War II.
This painting of Paul Gauguin (Man in a Red Beret) is attributed to Vincent van Gogh.
In 1798, Revere described his ride (and his capture) in a letter to Jeremy Belknap:.
Margaret (Peggy) Shippen was nearly nineteen when she married Benedict Arnold.
This red-figure vase, from the 4th century B.C. It depicts an important story from ancient times.
Pelops, a key character in ancient Greek mythology, is the namesake for the southern part of Greeces mainland.
It's September, 1928, when Alexander Fleming sees something unusual in a culture plate. What he found changes the infection-fighting world, going on t...
The word "Pesach" is pronounced PAY-sahch, with the "ch" sounding like the "ch" in the Scottish word "loch." It stands for "Passover," a holy da...
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