How do you measure the success of a pirate? Is it by fame? Is it…
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The Golden Age of Piracy is a treasure trove of swashbuckling tales of lovable rogues,…
“Gould, with his 70 millions, was one of the colossal failures of our time. He…
It is the dawn of the 14th century. The Kingdom of Scotland is in chaos.…
There are probably few people covered here at Biographics who are more divisive than Ned…
Military theorist Sir Basil Henry Liddell Hart once lamented that history too often glorifies those…
The Pacific Theater of World War II was the largest battlefield in world history. Tens…
Of all the Persian kings, Xerxes is probably the one best remembered today thanks to…
On a chilly day in 1955, an unremarkable scene unfolded in Alabama that would change…
Even if you are not a lover of classical music, you may have felt that…
There are a handful of writers throughout history whose mere name somehow conjures up everything…
On the morning of January 15, 1947, Los Angeles resident Betty Bersinger was walking with…