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.
Daughter of Henry VIII and Catherine of Aragon, Princess Mary was betrothed to marry her first cousin, Charles V. The Holy Roman Emperor broke-off the...
John Forbes Nash became a professor while most young people his age were still trying to determine their career paths.
This image depicts a marble bust of Ptolemy I Soter (305 BC282 BC), a close friend of Alexander the Great.
P.W. Botha (1916 - 2006) lived to be ninety years old.
Britain's Queen Mary - known as "May" to her family members - is pictured here with her six children.
Victoria and Albert find privacy on the Isle of Wight, but tragedy strikes when Albert dies at age 42. For years, the Queen stays out of the limelight...
Following a period of deep depression, during which he questioned whether he could ever compose again, Rachmaninov composed Piano Concerto No. 2. List...
Since the age of 7, Rafe Sadler lives with Thomas Cromwell who provides the lad with an excellent education. Sadler grows-up to be a man of great weal...
Ralph Waldo Emerson, one of America's famous nineteenth-century thinkers and writers, endured a great deal of sadness in his life.
Joseph Warren, a popular and innovative doctor who advocated sterile conditions in treating patients and inoculation of small-pox patients, sent Paul ...
Rembrandt van Rijn was a Dutch painter, born in Leiden during on the 15th of July, 1606.
On March 31, 1776, Abigail Adams wrote a letter to her husband about treating women fairly in the new government. He did not heed her advice.
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