In a South Pole expedition, Ernest Shackleton captained the HMS Endurance until it was trapped in the ice, causing her crew to survive for 20 months in Antarctica.

Fiery senator Joseph McCarthy from Wisconsin who fueled the anti-communist Red Scare movement in the United States known as McCarthyism.

One of the most important rulers to sit on the English throne, King Henry VIII was known for his six wives, unsuccessful wars and expensive lifestyle.

The 942 poems in Nostradamus’ 1555 book Les Propheties appear to accurately foresee events that unfolded after his time. His predictions of 9/11, Hitler and more have been discredited by academics yet pondered by millions.

From an impoverished immigrant family, Andrew Carnegie built himself up to become a self-made billionaire investor, innovator, and philanthropist.

Conspiring with political opponents to assassinate her husband, Tsar Peter III, Catherine the Great became the longest female Russian Ruler.

A sounding board for the wisdom of its colonial author, Ben Franklin, Poor Richard’s Alamanack was in print uninterrupted from 1732 to 1758.