Harry Winston, “The King of Diamonds”
The "King of Diamonds", Harry Winston (b. 1896 - d. 1978) was a hard-headed businessman and a fanatical gem-collector. The American jeweler famous for...
Eye of Dawn : The Story of Mata Hari, Part 1
This is the first in a two part expose of the much maligned Mata Hari, a woman far ahead of her time in staking...
The Life and Struggles of Winston Churchill: Winston Ignored
In the 1930s, Winston worked hard and long, but fruitlessly, to impress on the British government that Hitler and Nazi Germany were dangerous and...
Cleopatra VII of Egypt – Ptolemaic Majesty
Cleopatra took the throne from her father, Ptolemy XII, at the age of eighteen. A few years later, she was swept off of it,...
The Rise, Reign and Fall of Anne Boleyn, Part 1
In the late 1520s, if you wished to be ANYONE at the court of Henry VIII, you had to seek the favor of...
The Friendship of Alfred Lord Tennyson and Charles Dickens
Victorian writers Alfred Lord Tennyson and Charles Dickens enjoyed mutual admiration and friendship. The two were arguably the most popular and well-known writers of...
Rabin’s Definitive Legacy
So we begin, with two different episodes from Rabin's life, two episodes that show him in two completely different lights. One as the decisive...
Eumenes of Cardia
We know nothing of Eumenes’ early life before he became a friend of Philip II of Macedon (342 BC) and then his secretary,...
The Story of the Trung Sisters: Undaunted Courage
On February 6, 40 A.D., Trung Trac stood before her troops in full military regalia. She rallied 30,000 soldiers that had gathered at the...
Theodore Roosevelt Jr., Governor of Puerto Rico
In May 1928, President Hoover appointed Theodore Roosevelt Jr. to the position of Governor General of Puerto Rico. Roosevelt was in Vietnam at the...