He charged with the cavalry at Omdurman, escaped from a prison in Pretoria, was blamed for the
He painted the most famous portrait on Earth, and he finished almost nothing. He filled
At twenty he inherited a rough kingdom on the northern edge of the Greek world. At thirty-two he
For twenty-one years she ruled Egypt, charmed two of the most powerful Romans of her age, and
He was born on an island that had just changed flags, spoke French with an accent, and rose to
By her own account she could not read or write, yet at about seventeen a farm girl from a border
She was born a disappointment, declared illegitimate before her third birthday, imprisoned in
He was a slow talker, a poor fit for strict schools and a clerk in a Swiss patent office when,
He conquered Gaul, crossed a small river and started a civil war, ruled Rome as dictator and was
A young woman from Russian-ruled Warsaw, barred from the university in her own city, arrives in
