People

He was called ‘The Man with the Iron Heart’ because he had an iron heart: Reinhard Heydrich was cold, uncaring, the machine. He didn’t hate those he was ordered or tasked to destroy, no, he simply lacked any feeling about them. Heydrich was a man who coul...

Thomas Chatterton, considered Bristol's bard, was an English poet and forger of pseudo-medieval poetry.

Archetypal golfer by day and professional gambler by the twilight, Thompson, born Alvin Clarence Thomas, was a paradoxical character cloaked in veils of enigma.

Queen Mary I of England, or ‘Bloody Mary’ as she is notoriously known in English history.

The remarkable life of Marie Curie, a Polish and naturalised-French physicist and chemist who conducted pioneering research on radioactivity

Paradox being a defining feature of the Victorian age, it was a period of unprecedented progress and unimaginable horror

Mother Shipton, born as Ursula Southeil in 1488 in England, was a famous English soothsayer and prophetess known for her strange appearance and her ability to make prophetic statements in a poetic way. Many have questioned the authenticity of Mother Ship...

Gilles de Montmorency-Laval, better known as Baron Gilles de Rais, was a profound figure in the French nobility of the 15th century. Born in 1404, de Rais was a member of aristocratic lineage steeped in wealth and nobility.

Grigori Yefimovich Rasputin, known as simply 'Rasputin,' stands as one of the most enigmatic, controversial, and mythologised figures in modern history. Born into a simple Russian peasant family in the Siberian village of Pokrovskoe, his ascendancy to the...

Pierre Loutrel, also known as Pierrot le Fou or Crazy Pete, emerged as a notorious figure in the annals of French crime during the mid-20th century.

Ahmad Suradji was an Indonesian serial killer who was responsible for the murders of at least 42 women between 1986 and 1997.

Jalāl al-Dīn Muḥammad Rūmī, or simply Rumi, was a 13th-century Persian poet, Hanafi faqih, Islamic scholar, Maturidi theologian, and Sufi mystic originally from Greater Khorasan in Greater Iran. Rumi's works were written mostly in Persian, but occasionall...

Commodus, the son of Marcus Aurelius, ascended to the Roman throne in 180 AD and his reign of terror continued until his assassination in 192 AD.

In the realm of childhood innocence, the soothing verses of a simple nursery rhyme hold a special place. Among the array of these heart-warming poems, 'Twinkle Twinkle Little Star' stands as an undying classic, whispered and sang by generations across the...

These are just a further small sample of the words and phrases that came to us from the works of Shakespeare. These whimsical images were generated by TDBAI.com, part of the TDBComputing family.

Lady Jane Grey's reign was brief, a mere nine days in the summer of 1553. Yet, her tragic story encapsulates the tumultuous events during one of the most contentious periods in English history, dominated by faith wars, political intrigues, and the shiftin...