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In the dark annals of English history, one name stands out vividly as a symbol of fear and oppression during the seventeenth century: Matthew Hopkins, the infamous Witchfinder General.

Princess Alice, the mother of the late Queen Elizabeth's husband Prince Phillip, had a strange and difficult life which included rescuing 300 Jews from the Nazis in Greece. She was born with congenital deafness, diagnosed with schizophrenia.

Mary Ann Bevan was an English woman who, during the Victorian era, was known as the “Ugliest Woman in England”. She was born in 1828 and suffered from a rare condition known as Acromegaly, which caused her face to become disfigured and her body to grow to...

Scotland has its very own version of Nostradamus in the form of Brahan Seer, a legendary prophet who is said to have predicted many significant events in Scottish history.

Mass Child Abduction in 1976 in California

This all-female, the real Peaky Blinders, gang tormented London at the beginning of the 20th century.

One man had been warning about Madoff's scheme for years: Harry Markopolos.

Francis Galton, an English scientist, was the founder of the pseudoscience of eugenics. Eugenics is the study of improving the genetic quality of the human race by selective breeding.

Hans Steininger, a historical figure from the town of Braunau am Inn, Austria, is known for an unusual and tragic death - he was killed by his own beard.

Dr. William Chester Minor's life is stranger than fiction. That an American surgeon came to be one of the largest contributors to the Oxford English Dictionary (OED) is surprising.

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He actually excelled....

Another myth debunked....

He took the create and even won an Oscar for creating Mickey

Sigmund Freud remains one of history's best-known psychoanalysts, and his theory that the unconscious part of the human mind can drive action and behavior is still influential. One very specific way it's influential is its use in advertising, public relat...

After masterminding September 11th, the deadliest terrorist attack in history, bin Laden spent a decade successfully evading a global coalition. He was eventually tracked down and killed at a safe house in Pakistan in 2011, but not before he unleashed a v...