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The people called her Moses. Like the Old Testament patriarch, she led an enslaved people out of bondage--but few know Harriet Tubman's dark history.

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Pam Grier Facts. Pam Grier is famous for being the queen of the 1970s. But there's so much more to her glamorous and often tragic life.

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Princess Natasha Paley was one of the most stunning socialites in Paris—but nothing could protect her from a life plagued by tragedy.

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After her husband died, Elizabeth Feodorovna became a nun, hoping to atone for his sins—but her dark fate seems like proof that it was too little, too late.

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Peter Fonda may have saved Hollywood with the groundbreaking Easy Rider, but his life behind the scenes was tinged with tragedy.

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New evidence reveals that a monk in medieval England figured out the 76-year cycle of Halley's comet 600 years before Halley made his discovery.


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