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Desperate times call for desperate measures, the old saying goes, and the dark days of World War Two were definitely desperate times. Had Chapman been living, working, and stealing at any other time in history, he may have found governments and military agencies — and those who regularly arrested him — to be much less lenient than they were. He wasn't the sort to be trusted with anything, yet British intelligence did trust him. And so did the Germans.

Vincent Van Gogh: The Humble Genius

Karl I: The Last Emperor of Austria

Ludwig Wittgenstein: The 20th Century's Greatest Philosopher

Miss Dior: Resistance Fighter, Ravensbruck Survivor

Ivan Pavlov: His Dogs and Conditioning Theory

In today’s video we are covering our first Saint worshipped both by the Catholic and Eastern Orthodox churches, revered for having first introduced Christianity amongst the Rus. These were a pagan people of Nordic descent, who ruled over a vast land in the early Middle Ages, from the Baltic to the Black Sea. But her holy title should not fool you, as she did not dedicate her life solely to prayer and converting the heathen. This Saint was a ruler, the regent of the Principality of Kiev, and one of the most powerful women of the early Middle Ages.

Blackbeard: Scourge of the Seven Seas

Soapy Smith: King of the Frontier Con Men

Norman Borlaug: The Controversial Father of the Green Revolution

Louis XIV: The Sun King

Douglas Adams: His Life, the Universe, and Everything

Alfred Russel Wallace: The Forgotten Father of Evolution

George Stephenson: The Father of the Railways

Isaac Asimov: Foundation of a Writing Genius

Karl Benz: Father of the Automobile

Croesus: All the Money in the World

Mark Antony: Lover of Cleopatra, Rival for an Empire

Emmy Noether - Greatest Forgotten Mathematician in History

James Joyce: Ireland's Most Enigmatic Writer

Robert Louis Stevenson: Living Life Through Imagination

Michael Faraday: The Father of Electricity

Richard the Lionheart: The Crusader King

Jakob Fugger: The Richest Man Who Ever Lived

The Wright Brothers: First in Flight and Family

Musa I of Mali: The Real Life King Midas

Olive Oatman: Life among the Mohave

Porfirio Diaz: Mexico’s Gentleman Dictator

The 47 Ronin: Japan’s Greatest Tale of Vengeance

Elvis Presley: Life and Death of the King

Tutankhamun: The Boy King of Egypt

Melita Norwood: The Soviet Union’s Longest-Serving British Spy

Isambard Kingdom Brunel: The Genius of the Industrial Revolution

Jimi Hendrix: Life and Death of an Electric Alchemist

Carl Linnaeus: The Father of Taxonomy

Cornelius Vanderbilt: America’s First Tycoon

Roald Dahl: The Incredible Life of an Incredible Author

George Washington Carver: More than Just the Peanut Man

Enrico Fermi: Godfather of the Atomic Bomb

Roald Amundsen: Conqueror of the South Pole

Wild Bill Hickok: Legendary Lawman of the Wild West

Hannibal: Rome’s Greatest Enemy

Kublai Khan: China’s Mongol Emperor

There are many tales of people achieving all sorts of fortune and fame by selling their souls to the devil. Blues guitarist Robert Johnson is probably the most famous subject of that tall tale. The legend goes that he offered his soul at a Mississippi Delta crossroads, and in return he would receive musical success and talents beyond his wildest dreams. And, yes, to this day he is considered a pioneer of American blues guitar and songwriting. But the devil is in the details. And with a life so shrouded in mystery, it’s hard to separate fact from his very appealing fiction.

Calico Jack: The Worst Pirate

Frederick Sanger: The Quest for DNA Sequencing

Marcus Aurelius The Philosopher King 1

Harry S. Truman: The Accidental President

William the Conqueror: Warrior King

The Spanish Flu - Greatest Pandemic of the 20th Century

Robert Franklin Stroud: The Birdman of Alcatraz

Hatshepsut: Queen of the Nile

The Zodiac Killer: America’s Most Elusive Killer

Gregor Mendel: The Father of Genetics

Subutai: Genghis Khan’s Demon Dog of War

Montezuma II: The End of the Aztec Empire

Darius the Great - Great King of Persia

Hugo Chavez: Venezuela’s Savior or Destroyer

John Pierpont Morgan: The World’s Bank

Chester Nimitz: Grand Admiral of the Pacific

Prince Schwarzenberg: The General who Defeated Napoleon

Philo Farnsworth: The Electric Whizz Kid

Larry Thorne: The Many Wars of the Phoenix Soldier

Salvador Dali: A Life in Conflict

Yuri Gagarin: The First Man in Space

Harvey Milk: The Battle for Equality

Black Sam Bellamy: The Richest Pirate in History

Ronald Reagan: The Man Behind the Icon

Lise Meitner: Revolutionizing the Atomic World

Horatio Nelson: Britain’s Most Beloved Sailor

Lyndon B. Johnson: The Civil Rights President

John Anthony Walker: A Soviet Agent In Our Midst

The Alphabet Killer: Letters of Obsession

Mark Twain: The Father of American Humor

Richard Nixon: The Biggest Scandal in American History

Pericles: The First Citizen of Athens

Attila the Hun: The Scourge of God

The Three Lives of Andy Warhol

Rosa Parks: Activist. Fighter. Hero.

Smallpox: The Plague Humanity Defeated

Thutmose III: Egypt’s Greatest Conqueror

There are probably few people covered here at Biographics who are more divisive than Ned Kelly. Australia’s most famous outlaw and bushranger, he is primarily remembered for his final showdown with the police where Ned and his men wore homemade armor. To some people, he is a folk hero; a working-class revolutionary who took a stand against British colonial authority. To others, he is simply a cold-blooded villain who has been undeservedly mythologized and morphed into the “Robin Hood” of Australia.

After the Carthaginians lost the First Punic War and General Hamilcar Barca was left in disgrace, his son Hannibal vowed to avenge his family and his country. He marched his elephants over the Alps and savaged the Romans on the Italian peninsula, killing tens of thousands of legionaries with smaller armies and superior tactics. Rome only survived because of the brilliance of one man. An up-and-coming Roman general matched Hannibal's brilliance, preserving the Republic and all but destroying the mighty Carthaginian Empire. He was born as Publius Scipio, but he died as Scipio Africanus: the victor of Africa and the savior of Rome.

Elizabeth Short: The Black Dahlia

Buddy Holly: The Day the Music Died

During the American Civil War, the country was embroiled in so much fighting that it’s astounding the country still exists today. No fight was more profound than the struggle for black slaves to finally earn their freedom. After all, the staunch belief from the American South that they had a right to own slaves was a primary force in the war beginning in the first place. But even decades before the war highlighted the need for America to end slavery, many people were finding ways to get slaves to freedom. Harriet Tubman went above and beyond. But that’s just one part of her rich story.

Robert the Bruce: Scotland's Greatest Champion

It's hard to deny that Jay Gould was one of the wealthiest American businessmen of the 19th century, but he also might have been the most brazen criminal in North America.

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Barry Seal was an adventure-loving pilot from Louisiana that lived life according to one si→’s assassination: https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/4w3mvw/an-fbi-agent-tells-story-behind-an-infamous-escobar-cartel-assassination Washington Post’s take on the same: https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/politics/1986/03/10/quick-end-for-flamboyant-informer/25ffc288-45d5-4e83-aa56-45a03fcc6005/ History of the Medellin Cartel: https://www.medellinabrazasuhistoria.com/origin-of-the-medellin-cartel/?lang=en History of Colombia: https://www.britannica.com/place/Colombia/La-Violencia-dictatorship-and-democratic-restoration Drug War timeline: https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=9252490 Slate: https://slate.com/culture/2017/09/whats-fact-and-whats-fiction-in-american-made.html Hollywood v History, what’s true and what’s not in American Made: https://www.historyvshollywood.com/reelfaces/american-made/ LA Times on the Washington Times’ exposure of Seal: https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1988-07-28-mn-9956-story.html Arrest and the CIA myth: https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=c9xODgAAQBAJ&pg=PT32#v=onepage&q&f=false Iran-Contra: https://www.britannica.com/event/Iran-Contra-Affair Sandinistas: https://www.britannica.com/topic/Sandinista In-depth article, but an untrustworthy source? https://www.counterpunch.org/2016/11/04/air-cocaine-the-wild-true-story-of-drug-running-arms-smuggling-and-contras-at-a-small-airstrip-in-clintons-arkansas/

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He may have started as Socrates' pupil, but he grew into an enlightened man who is arguably the most influential thinker in the history of the world. → Subscribe for new videos four times per week. https://www.youtube.com/c/biographics?sub_confirmation=1 TopTenz Properties Our companion website for more: http://biographics.org Our sister channel TopTenz: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCQ-hpFPF4nOKoKPEAZM_THw/ Our Newest Channel about Interesting Places: https://studio.youtube.com/channel/UCH

Most pirates catch a big score before being caught themselves. During the Golden Age of Piracy, most pirates met their fate at the end of a rope or the bottom of the sea. Today, we tell you about the exception. This is story of Henry Every: the pirate who robbed more than $500,000 in riches and got away with it. → Subscribe for new videos four times per week. https://www.youtube.com/c/biographics?sub_confirmation=1 TopTenz Properties Our companion website for more: http://biographics.org Our

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Edward was a kind man who endured a long, twisting road to the English crown. History calls him the last true Saxon king, but as our biographic profile shows, there could be another title that's even more accurate. → Subscribe for new videos four times per week. https://www.youtube.com/c/biographics?sub_confirmation=1 TopTenz Properties Our companion website for more: http://biographics.org Our sister channel TopTenz: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCQ-hpFPF4nOKoKPEAZM_THw/ Our Newest Channel

For several weeks in the Fall of 2001, America was gripped by twin terrorist plots. The September 11 hijackings were a massive world event whose effects continue to ripple throughout most corners of the Earth; in the weeks after the Twin Towers fell, though, there was nearly as much fear and anxiety about a small stream of letters that were intentionally laced with anthrax. The killer was never officially identified, and the case was never formally closed, but one man has been intrinsically lin

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The Somerton Man: Australia's Greatest Crime Mystery

Kim Il-Sung: Father of a Troubled Nation

Admiral William Halsey: The US Navy's Raging Bull

Jackson Pollock: Decoding the Art of the ‘Action Painter’

Wu Zetian: The Brilliant, Bloody Concubine Who Seized the Throne

Bartholomew “Black Bart” Roberts: The Dread Pirate

Maria Theresa: The Might of the Habsburgs

Tomáš Masaryk: The Father of Czechoslovakia

Manfred von Richthofen: Flight of the Red Baron

Oda Nobunaga: The Great Unifier of Japan

Akhenaten: The Heretic Pharaoh

Chiang Kai-Shek: The General who Created Modern China

Nelson Mandela: From Political Prisoner to Global Hero

Gavrilo Princip: The Teenager Who Started World War I

HIV/AIDS: Plague of the 21st Century

Commodus: Emperor, Gladiator, Madman

Jacques Mesrine: The Kamikaze of Crime

Ching Shih: The Pirate Widow Menace of the South China Sea

Oswald Mosley: Hitler’s Fascist Man in Britain

Roger Casement: The Compassionate Revolutionary

Freddie Mercury: Bohemian Rhapsody

Stede Bonnet: The Gentleman Pirate

Jiang Qing: Blood and Revenge in the Cultural Revolution

Bugsy Siegel: The Mob Comes to Las Vegas

Dr. Hans Münch: The Good Man of Auschwitz

Marquis de Lafayette: The Hero of Two Worlds

Francis Drake: The Privateer and Explorer Extraordinaire

Claude Monet: Genius of the Gardens

The Isdal Woman: A Cold War Murder Mystery

Margaret Thatcher: Britain’s Greatest Prime Minister… or its Worst?

Martin Luther: The Father of the Reformation

LISK: The Long Island Serial Killer

Duke of Marlborough

The Year of the Five Emperors: When Rome Plunged into Chaos

Dick Turpin: History's Most Notorious Highwayman

Primo Levi: Chemist, Writer, Auschwitz Survivor