Benjamin Franklin was a multi-talented American founding father--but he also owned slaves, frequented sex clubs and w...

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JFK brought Camelot to Washington and forever cemented the Kennedy name in the political sphere. But he was also a co...

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Pablo Escobar was Colombia's king of cocaine, a man his own government was afraid to touch. But he also violated the ...

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Adolph Hitler was history's most notorious anti-Semite, so hell-bent on world domination that his Nazi war machine in...

They were the bad boys of popular music in the 1960's. But contrary to the usual stories, Frank Sinatra had nothing t...