In 1922 Robert Allerton—described by the Chicago Tribune as the "richest bachelor in Chicago"—met a twenty-two-year-old University of Illinois architecture student named John Gregg, who was twenty-six years his junior. Virtually inseparable from then on, they began publicly referring to one another as father and son within a couple years of meeting. In 1960, after nearly four decades together, and with Robert Allerton nearing ninety, they embarked on a daringly nonconformist move:...

The biography of one of the most famous abortionists of the nineteenth century—and a story that has unmistakable parallels to the current war on reproductive rightsFor forty years in the mid-nineteenth century, “Madame Restell,” the nom de guerre of the most successful female physician in America, sold birth control medication, attended women during their pregnancies, delivered their children, and performed abortions in a series of clinics run out of her home in Ne...

Los Angeles, 1930s - The young woman looked like an angel as she gazed absently at the heavens through the telescope atop Mt. Wilson. But it was doubtful she saw anything. She appeared to have been dead for hours.She'd been posed, and lovingly, but why? That was Detective Theo Mathieu's first thought as he observed the victim.To find the answers, Mathieu would have to trace the victim's past from a small town in Arizona to the mansions of millionaires in Los Angeles, riskin...

Have you ever wanted to know more about history, but don't have time for the long version?This book brings you a short account of the Lincoln Assassination. In less than 60 minutes you will meet the key players, learn the pertinent facts of Booth's plot, and discover the fate of the individual conspirators.Lincoln's bodyguard that night was John Parker, an undistinguished Washington, D.C. policeman. Parker was supposed to be stationed in the little passageway outside of the...

Abraham Lincoln is known for his story telling.According to his friends, Lincoln usually began all of his stories by saying, "That reminds me of a story…" And, once he started talking everyone would move in real close, so they could hear what "Old Abe" had to say.While Lincoln's stories, more often than not, made people laugh, they almost always had a point to them.The stories were Lincoln's way of making it easy for people to understand what he was saying. Yes. He ...

Andrew Jackson has the dubious honor of being the first President to have an assassination attempt made upon his life.Picture this: Sixty-three year old Andrew Jackson is walking across the Capitol Rotunda. Richard Lawrence, an unemployed house painter moves to the front of the crowd. He fires two pistol shots into the President.By luck, both pistols misfire. The aging Jackson charges the attempted assassin, beating him to the ground with his cane.Jackson was no str...

February 11, 1861 was cloudy, and cool. A light rain was falling. President-elect Abraham Lincoln and his family boarded the train at the Great Western Depot in Springfield, Illinois. Their destination was Washington, DC, where Lincoln was to be inaugurated on March 4th. Along the way, the Presidential train stopped in numerous cities and towns to allow Lincoln to meet with the people who elected him.In Baltimore, Detective Allan Pinkerton, was investigating an alleged plot to blow...

It was a fine day for a battle. Hundreds of spectators from Washington took the day off to tag after the army. They came in buggies and on horseback, riding seven long hours in the hot Virginia sun. Mostly men, a few women, a host of politicians – among them Ohio Senator Ben Wade, New York Congressman Alfred Ely, and Illinois Congressman Elihu Washburne.English war correspondent William Howard Russell reported, "The spectators were all excited, and a lady with an opera glass who wa...

Bad Ass Presidents follows the life of America's warrior Presidents. Forget Bush, forget Obama - They're a bunch of pussies compared to these guys. And, just so you know - we took out all of the boring crap, and left just what you need to know.George Washington rode fearlessly at the head of his troops. During the French and Indian wars he had two horses shot from under him, and four bullet holes blasted through his coat. None of that discouraged him.Andrew Jackson has the ...

British India, 1774. Lady Emily Augusta Fitzroy is a beautiful but melancholy young noblewoman, packed off to India by her father in order to marry Warren Hastings, the tyrannical Governor of Bengal. Even before reaching Calcutta, however, Lady Emily becomes a pawn in the political intrigues that swirl around the Governor. She is kidnapped by pirates, egged on by Hastings' chief rival. Imprisoned at a pirate base on the lawless island of Ceylon, her fate now rests in the hands of two men: ...

Santa cannot keep up with his duties the northern hemisphere and his brother, Albert, suggests they start up a new branch on the South pole to service the Southern hemisphere. Albert gets ready and travels South where his base is set up in caves under the ice near Mount Erebus. He has teamed up with a group of Emperor Penguins, and has hired twelve new Elves. The plan is to hitch the penguins to a Santa sled and launch them from a submarine, All progresses well until the evil elf, Jude sta...

The youngest greatest musician in Earth, Brandon. He died from a illness during the middle of the performance, but reborn with his past memories at a new fantasy world with music.Music with powers like magic, humans can obtain the power from music and grow to become legends with great powers.Find out how Brandon obtain The Power of Music, discover the legends, engage with the fairies.