When the British king hopeful Charles Stuart died in 1788, one detail about his death was so humiliating, his brother made up a bizarre story.
Billy Joel turned everyday American stories into timeless songs that still resonate across generations.
In 1962, Gloria Grahame became the most infamous woman in Hollywood, when she married her own stepson.
There's a reason history wants us to forget the twisted tale of Olga of Kiev.
Jean-François Champollion was the scholar who used the Rosetta Stone to decode ancient Egyptian hieroglyphs, giving voice to a lost civilization.
In his short life, Robert Kennedy Sr. had a career that transformed him from a hard-edged prosecutor to a moral leader in a divided nation.
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