An eccentric psychologist and researcher, Timothy Leary became an outspoken advocate of LSD in the 1960s — and introduced millions to psychedelic drugs.

Alice Roosevelt was just as strong-willed and outspoken as her father Theodore Roosevelt, who admitted even he could not control her.

Born out of England's need to quickly rebuild after World War II, Brutalist architecture is characterized by its divisive use of raw concrete and clunky design.

From adventurer to author to activist, John Griffith London led a dramatic life in keeping with his celebrated novels like "White Fang" and "The Call of the Wild."

On the night of July 13, 1966, Richard Speck brutally murdered eight nursing students in their Chicago residence — and the details were horrifying.

Lonnie Johnson was born in Alabama in 1949. The odds seemed stacked against him, but the young genius worked his way to NASA and later, to multi-millions.

Just a year into his reign in 1936, Edward VIII abdicated in order to marry American divorcée Wallis Simpson. But while England disapproved of the couple, Adolf Hitler welcomed them to Germany with open arms.

Bethlem Royal Hospital in England was the first facility of its kind to treat people with mental illness — but poor management and funding turned it into a chaotic institution that came to define the word "bedlam."

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He was named "Little Lord Fauntleroy" after a well-dressed character in a classic children's book, but nothing about this murdered child's story was innocent or entertaining.