As a frontiersman, Kit Carson witnessed some of history’s greatest horrors, but it was a broken heart and a sad diagnosis that spelled his doom.
We may be standing on the shoulders of giants—and, if some legends are believed, that phrase might be shockingly literal.
So notorious that its name is synonymous with madness, the history of Bethlem Royal Hospital, or Bedlam, is filled with some of humanity's darkest moments.
The Unknown Woman of the Seine began as a mystery and became one of the most recognizable faces in the world—and there were plenty of twists along the way.
Theodore Roosevelt survived everything from battle to disease, and even an assassination attempt—only to be undone by something far more heartbreaking.
Only one woman was devious enough to outlast the notorious King Henry VIII—and that was the utterly scandalous Catherine Parr.
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