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Toni Morrison Facts. Toni Morrison was a living legend, but how did a single mother turn her spare time into one of the great bibliographies of literature?

L.M. Montgomery was just as optimistic and hopeful as Anne Shirley—but as the years wore on, life dealt her a series of heartbreaking blows.

After the infamous Tudor king Henry VIII sent his wife Catherine Howard to her death, her last words at the chopping block were utterly heartbreaking.

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.

If the king thought he’d found the perfect mistress, he was SO wrong. Lucy Walter wasn’t as innocent as she looked.

“Ambition leads me not only farther than any other man has been before me, but as far as I think it possible for man to go.”—Captain James Cook.