
Acclaimed in his lifetime for his remarkable literary career, Charles Dickens’ private life was wracked by dysfunction, scandal and the cruelty he inflicted on his wife and his children.



Charles Dickens, as a younger man


Catherine Dickens, 1838


Ebenezer Scrooge and Marley’s ghost, A Christmas Carol


Grip, the Raven from Barnaby Rudge


Freddy Bartholomew, in the MGM version of David Copperfield


Dickens, later in life

Charles Dickens (Volume Six, Episode Eight)  Part One

Of Some Very Famous People You've Never Really Heard Of...In Less Than An Hour.

History

Society & Culture


IN 1911, an American explorer, Hiram Bingham, re-discovered the Incan ruins at Machu Picchu, helping to popularize this site, which today is one of the seven modern wonders of the world.



Hiram Bingham, at Harvard, with wife Alfreda


Church built on the former site of the Coricancha, Cuzco, Peru


Francisco Pizarro


Capture of Atahualpa by Pizarro at Cajamarca


Execution of Atahualpa by Pizarro, Cajamarca


Sacsayhuaman fortress ruins, Cuzco

Hiram Bingham, the Real Indiana Jones and the Lost City of Machu Picchu (Volume Six, Episode Eleven) Part One


IN 1911, an American explorer, Hiram Bingham, re-discovered the Incan ruins at Machu Picchu, helping to popularize this site, which today is one of the seven modern wonders of the world.



Hiram Bingham, 1912


Machu Pichu, Hayna Picchu in the background


Machu Picchu, photographed by Hiram Bingham


Hiram Bingham, Air Corps during WWI


Bingham, US Senator


Bingham with other members of President’s Coolidge’s committee on Aviation .


Hiram Bingham Grave, Arlington National Cemetery

Hiram Bingham, the Real Indiana Jones and the Lost City of Machu Picchu (Volume Six, Episode Eleven) Part Two


The triumph, tragedy and bizarre secrets of one of the 20th century’s most prominent figures.



Lindbergh with his father CA Lindbergh


Lindbergh as an Air Army Cadet


Anne Morrow as a teenager


Lindbergh with The Spirit of St. Louis


The Spirit of St. Louis at the Smithsonian Institute


Lindbergh at Croydon, 1927


Anne Morrow Lindbergh


Lindbergh estate, Highfields, now a youth rehabilitation center, Hopewell, NJ


Charles A. Lindbergh, Jr.


Lindbergh baby, cover of time Magazine


Wanted poster


With Goering in Germany, 1936

Charles Lindbergh (Volume Six, Episode Ten) Part One


The triumph, tragedy and bizarre secrets of one of the 20th century’s most prominent figures.



Bruno Richard Hauptman


John Condon on the witness stand


Lindbergh on the witness stand


Gasoline can which contained Lindbergh ransom money found in Hauptmann’s garage


Norman Schwarzkopf, NJ State Police, and father of future Desert Storm commander


Lindbergh in the Pacific, WW II 


Anne and Charles Lindbergh with JFK, a politician that Lindbergh admired


Lindbergh, later in life, in the Philippines


Lindbergh grave, Kipahalu, Maui, Hawaii

Charles Lindbergh (Volume Six, Episode Ten) Part Two


In 1963, two British criminals masterminded the robbery of 2.6 million pounds in cash from a Royal Mail Train, an amount worth 45 million pounds today. The robbery and its aftermath caused a nationwide sensation.



Bruce Reynolds


Gordon Goody


Recent photo, Sears Crossing


Bridge #127, aka Bridego Bridge


Ronnie Biggs, mug shot


Ronnie Biggs and Bruce Reynolds, sons Michael Biggs and Nick Reynolds

Charles Dickens (Volume Six, Episode Eight) Part One

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