As the British Empire spread its dominion across the seas in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, great masses of people poured forth to populate its ever-widening realms. Their migration unfolded in stages. They journeyed from farms to towns, from towns to great cities like London and Bristol,...

Thomas Edward Lawrence, called Lawrence of Arabia was born in 1888 and died in a motorcycle accident in 1935. Thomas was born in Tremadoc, Wales , and attended the University of Oxford. In 1910 he went on a archaeological expedition to the ancient Hittite city of Carchemish (located in Turkey)...

JOHN PAUL JONES John Paul Jones was born on July 6, 1747 right near Kirkcudbright Scotland. He was the first American naval hero. When he said his famous words, "I have not yet begun to fight"; they became famous throughout the world. When John was only 12, he signed to learn an a...