People who change the world may, or may not, be famous in their own lifetimes. Often it takes years for others to understand forward-thinking contributions. This collection introduces you to some of the world's most-famous people
Rodrigo Lara Bonilla was Colombia's Minister of Justice when he was brutally murdered in 1984. Pablo Escobar was widely blamed for the crime.
After he is banished from Salem, then part of the Massachusetts Bay Colony, Roger Williams receives invaluable help from Native Americans.
In 1991, the first of two graves containing the suspected remains of Tsar Nicholas II and members of his family and household were officially opened f...
From the Reagan Presidential Library, we learn the following about Ronald Wilson Reagan:Even before he made the White House his home, Ronald Reagan sp...
Theodore Roosevelt thought it would be great to spend some time with his son Kermit (who lived in South America).
Rosa Parks brought the civil rights movement fuel to grow with her actions.
Rudolf Abel left the States for a trip to Moscow during 1955. Not only did the trip give him a chance to rest, he was with his wife and daughter.
When his friend and patron Archduke Rudolph - youngest son of Emperor Leopold II and brother of Emperor Franz - was appointed Archbishop of Olmtz, Bee...
Russia, in the Age of Peter the Great, became a very different place when the Russian Tsar began to transform his country to make it more modern.
NASA honored Sacajawea when the federal agency used her name to describe an elliptical caldera on the planet Venus.
Samuel Clemens first used his pen name, Mark Twain, while working for Territorial Enterprise, a newspaper in Virginia City, Nevada.
On January 6, 1838, Samuel Morse successfully tests an electrical telegraph. So why did it take years longer to send the first message?
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