Patty Hearst hails from one of America’s wealthiest families—but in 1974, the Symbionese Liberation Army kidnapped her when she was just 19 years old.
Not only was the Thirty Years War one of the longest in history, it was one of the most brutal. Let’s dive into why that was.
Captain Robert Scott was the British Antarctic explorer who led an expedition to claim the South Pole in England’s honor. However, a simple miscommunication led to frostbite, starvation, and an icy, snow-swept grave.
Yang Guifei was Emperor Xuanzong's beautiful concubine—but her fairytale life was eventually marred by betrayal and tragedy.
Charles X of France lived in the lap of luxury, but his ultra-royalist policies ended with a harrowing escape—and a humiliating exile.
Atahualpa spent his life dominating anyone who stood in his path to power, including his family. But his grand plan of ascendancy didn't account for the arrival of the greedy and bloodthirsty new occupants of the Americas.
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