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Catherine de' Medici was an Italian noblewoman who was queen consort of France from 1547 until 1559, by marriage to King Henry II, and Queen mother of kings Francis II, Charles IX and Henry III. The years during which her sons reigned have been called "the age of Catherine de' Medici" as she had extensive, if at times varying, influence in the political life of France.

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Sir Ernest Shackleton was an Irish Antarctic explorer who led three British expeditions to the Antarctic. He was one of the principal figures of the period known as the Heroic Age of Antarctic Exploration and famously saved his entire crew after his ship, Endurance, became trapped in pack ice and was slowly crushed and sank. The crew escaped by camping on the sea ice until it disintegrated, then by launching the lifeboats to reach Elephant Island, after which Shackleton and a small crew sailed in a makeshift boat over stormy ocean conditions to South Georgia Island, 720 nautical miles away to get help.

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The Odyssey is one of two major ancient Greek epic poems attributed to Homer. It is, in part, a sequel to the Iliad, the other Homeric epic. In Book Two, Telemachus, son of Ulysses, finally confronts the suitors who have been eating his father’s food and drinking his wine in his absence while they attempt to capture the hand of his mother in marriage. He learns of their intentions and a looming war with them before meeting with the Goddess, Minerva.

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Once billed as the most beautiful woman in the world, Hedy Lamarr was an Austrian-American film star whose true passion was inventing. During a career in which she out-billed some of the top male actors of the era, Lamarr spent her free time nurturing her inventiveness and ideas, some of which are used in the Wi-Fi and Bluetooth technology of today.

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Inventive, ambitious and brave, the Wright Brothers tackled the challenge of aviation with a dedication that was hard to match. Several near misses, test flights and an unwavering commitment to flying, their historic flight at Kitty Hawk on December 14th, 1903 set in motion a revolution in how we travel over the earth.

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The Cask of Amontadillo is a macabre short story by Edgar Allan Poe in which a passion for rare wine meets the darkness of the catacombs by chasing the temptation for a taste. A prime example of Poe’s penchant for the doors that lead toward death.

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In September of 1666, The Great Fire of London swept through the central parts of the English city, raging uncontrolled for days. The flames gutted the medieval City of London inside the old Roman city wall, destroying 87 parish churches, St Paul's Cathedral, and most of the buildings of the City authorities. It is estimated to have destroyed the homes of 70,000 of the city's 80,000 inhabitants.

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As humans on Earth busied themselves with their own endeavours during the mid-1890s, aliens on Mars began plotting an invasion of Earth because their own resources were dwindling. The War of the Worlds is a science fiction novel by English author H. G. Wells, first published in 1897 by Pearson's Magazine in the UK and by Cosmopolitan magazine in the US. 

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A Dutch exotic dancer and courtesan who was convicted of being a spy for Germany during World War I, Mata Hari was at once celebrated for her allure as a provocative seductress and persecuted for it at the same time. Claiming to be of Javanese ancestry, her story is one in which she broke into the personal circles of Europe’s elite, only to be cast aside and used as a scapegoat. 

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Famous for his exceptional skill and speed as a martial artist, Bruce Lee’s rise to fame took a meandering route that included living in Hong Kong under Japanese occupation as a child, street fighting and appearing in over 20 films by the age of 18. Founder of Jeet Kune Do, or the Way of the Intercepting Fist, Lee’s untimely death led to rumours of organized crime and a family curse.

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