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    Bletchley Park

    During World War II, a country house in Buckinghamshire hosted some of the UK’s top minds

  2. Blackbeard the Pirate

    In the 18th century, one man makes his name as the most notorious pirate of all time...

  3. Beatrix Potter

    How did Beatrix Potter - a shy, sheltered Victorian girl - become a literary phenomenon?

  4. Arthur Conan Doyle

    How did a young medical student from Edinburgh transform crime fiction forever?

  5. Apollo 13

    An explosion on board Apollo 13 threatens the lives of the crew 200,000 miles from Earth.

  6. Anne Frank

    Anne Frank’s diary captured life in hiding during WWII, through which her story lives on.

  7. Angkor

    Built by kings, Angkor had a footprint bigger than present-day New York.

  8. Amelia Earhart

    As one of the great pioneers, Earhart was the first woman to fly solo across the Atlantic

  9. Alfred Hitchcock

    How did an introverted working-class boy become Hollywood's ‘Master of Suspense’?

  10. Alexander the Great

    Alexander the Great is as famed for his hedonistic lifestyle as his military genius.

  11. Alcatraz

    Cloaked in secrecy, Alcatraz is the most feared institution in the American penal system.

  12. Albert Einstein

    Who was Einstein, and what were his theories that upended established scientific beliefs?

  13. Agatha Christie

    The “Queen of Crime”, Agatha Christie, is the best-selling novelist of all time.

  14. Abraham Lincoln

    How did one man attract such public adoration and murderous wrath all at the same time?

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