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The story of Helen of Troy, her remarkable birth and her infamous love affair with Paris, the Trojan

"I will bury my heart, at Wounded Knee"With Native American culture in free fall in the years follow

Following the tragic death of Crazy Horse and the ruthless cessation of the Sioux way of life, the l

Though the Battle of the Little Bighorn seemed for the triumphant Lakota and their allies - the larg

What happened between the moment that George A. Custer dispatched a trumpeter with his famous final

“You and I are going home today, and by a trail that is strange to us both…”The Battle of The Little

The U.S. was cast into a spiralling panic following the economic depression of 1873, and waves of pa

In the wake of the barbaric Washita River massacre, George Custer found himself drifting; addicted t

"What would you do if your home was attacked? You would stand up like a brave man and defend it. Tha

Of all the great characters entangled in the story of George A. Custer and the American Indian Wars,

With the American Civil War coming to a close in April 1865, George Custer, cavalry commander in the

“Come on, you Wolverines!”The story of the American Indian Wars of 1862-68 is an enthralling tale of

The Holy Roman Emperor Charles V, the Habsburg dynasty's mightiest ruler, was at once King of Spain,

"The First Emperor will die and his land will be divided….”The First Emperor of China, Qin Shi Huang

Rumours surrounding Lord Byron’s scandalous divorce rippled throughout the world. Finally, he had no

Good God I am surely in hell!Upon Lord Byron’s return to England and the publication of Childe Harol

By 1809, Lord Byron found himself untethered and debt-ridden. Disenchanted with politics, frustrated

Few lives from history can have contained as many strange and exciting strands as that of Lord Byron

Music for sex, dancing, and watching the straight world go by… The explosion of Disco provides an ex

“We choose to go to the Moon. We choose to go to the Moon in this decade and do the other things, no