Michael W. Simmons

The tragic death of Diana, Princess of Wales, triggered an unprecedented worldwide outpou...

What did Alexander Hamilton ever do besides get shot in a duel by Aaron Burr? When it com...

Albert Einstein is universally regarded as the most brilliant scientist of the 20th centu...

Everyone knows that Thomas Edison is America’s most famous inventor. But what exact...

Nikola Tesla: inventor or magician? Tesla was one of the most famous inventors who ever l...

Who are the Rothschilds? Still making headlines today, their fascinating history stretche...

Katherine of Aragon: abandoned woman. Anne Boleyn: ambitious upstart. Jane Seymour: virtu...

William Shakespeare was the most brilliant writer in the history of the English language....

John D. Rockefeller is held to be one of the wealthiest men who ever lived; he is also on...

Mary Stuart became the Queen of Scots when she was only a week old. While she was still a...

Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis was, for much of her life, the most famous woman in the world....

The Romanov family ruled as tsars and emperors of all Russia for just over three hundred ...

When we think of Queen Victoria, whose reign eclipsed that of every British king and quee...

Three-foot-tall hairdos, “let them eat cake”, and the guillotine: this is the...

Apart from Abraham Lincoln the most famous name of the Civil War is undoubtedly that of U...

Born an obscure German princess who suffered under the control of a domineering, narcissi...

When Elizabeth I took the throne of England in 1559, hardly anyone knew what to make of h...