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Wilkie Collins (1824 -1889) was a significant figure in Victorian Literary circles. He is perhaps best known today for his sensation novel The Woman in White as well as his influential detective novel The Moonstone.

Eurystheus ordered Heracles to descend into the underworld, capture Cerberus, the three-headed guard dog of Hades, and deliver it to him for his twelfth labor.

The ancient Egyptians believed in an abundant afterlife where they lived alongside the gods, but first, the soul had to pass divine judgment.

Though she never held office, Eva Perón had an outsized role in shaping her husband’s political movement, Peronism, an ideology that outlasted the Peróns themselves.

As icons of strength and leadership, many African women have become figures of great inspiration.

Aphrodite is best known as a beauty-obsessed and spiteful Greek goddess, but she was a much more complex and important goddess in the ancient world.

Millionaire Harry Oakes died suddenly and violently. Decades later, his murder remains unsolved. Who plays a role in this dark and twisted tale?

The Thirteenth Amendment officially abolished slavery in the United States but left exceptions that still impact the country.