Tragedy followed Mary Todd Lincoln like a storm cloud—and after losing her husband and three of her children, she went down a dark path.
Ivan the Terrible was one of the most deranged rulers the world has ever seen—yet few people know this mad tyrant's dark history.
For years after the death of her beloved husband Prince Albert, Queen Victoria had a morbid way of keeping his memory alive.
Ella Fitzgerald realized the potential of the human voice as a musical instrument--but few people know her dark history.
Jackson Pollock turned chaos into some of America’s most revolutionary art—but he still couldn’t stop it from destroying his life.
Discover the ordinary 20th-century jobs that disappeared almost overnight, from switchboard operators and milkmen to projectionists and keypunch operators, and learn how technology transformed everyday work forever.
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