314 - Wild Bill Hickok - Legendary Lawman of the Wild West
As a marshal, Wild Bill Hickok took a hands-off approach. He spent most of his day gambling in...
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313 - Hannibal Romes - Greatest Enemy
The power of Ancient Rome seems absolute today, but that wasn’t always the case. Over 150 years...
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312 - Kublai Khan - Chinas Mongol Emperor
In 1298, a manuscript was published that took Western Europe by storm. Known today as the Travels...
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311 - Robert Johnson - How The Blues Never Lost Its Soul
There are many tales of people achieving all sorts of fortune and fame by selling their souls to...
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310 - Horatio Nelson - Britains Most Beloved Sailor
Horatio Nelson was born at Burnham Thorpe on Sept. 29, 1758. He entered the Royal Navy at the age...
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309 - Calico Jack - The Worst Pirate
John Rackham (26 December 1682 – 18 November 1720), commonly known as Calico Jack, was an English...
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308 - Frederick Sanger - The Quest for DNA Sequencing
In the 125 years since Alfred Nobel’s estate first established the Nobel Prize, Cambridge...
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307 - Marcus Aurelius - The Philosopher King
All good things must come to an end. And so did the Pax Romana, a 200-year-long period of time...
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306 - William the Conqueror - Warrior King
1066 CE. The English Throne sits vacant after the King dies without an heir. Three claimants to...
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305 - Harry S. Truman - The Accidental President
In 1922, Harry Truman sat in his mother-in-law’s house in small town Missouri, contemplating the...
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304 - The Spanish Flu - The Greatest Pandemic of the 20th Century
The “Spanish” flu pandemic was the single worst disease episode in modern world history. In the...
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303 - Robert Franklin Stroud - The Birdman of Alcatraz
In his obituary, the New York Times called Robert Franklin Stroud “probably America’s most famous...
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302 - Hatshepsut - Queen of the Nile
A hundred years ago, Egyptologist James Henry Breasted described Hatshepsut as “the first great...
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301 - The Zodiac Killer - Americas Most Elusive Killer
He popularized, for lack of a better word, several tropes that we associate with serial killers...
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300 - Gregor Mendel - The Father of Genetics
Gregor Johann Mendel was a scientist, Augustinian friar and abbot of St. Thomas' Abbey in Brno,...
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299 - Subutai - Genghis Khans Demon Dog of War
Subutai was a Mongolian general and the primary military strategist of Genghis Khan and Ögedei...
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298 - Montezuma II - The End of the Aztec Empire
Imagine, for a second, that aliens land tomorrow. Armed with futuristic weaponry, they take the...
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297 - Darius the Great - The Great King of Persia
“I am Darius the great king, king of kings, king of countries containing all kinds of men, king...
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296 - Hugo Chavez - Venezuelas Savior or Destroyer
Born in Sabaneta, Venezuela, on July 28, 1954, Hugo Chávez attended the Venezuelan military...
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295 - John Pierpont Morgan - The Worlds Bank
Here in the 21st century, Capitalism is an increasingly controversial word. There’s a growing...
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