The first Englishman to sail around the world, he later served in the British Parliament
In the second Punic War, this Carthaginian general almost defeated Rome
Accused of accepting bribes, Francis Bacon was imprisoned in this forbidding complex in 1621
Julius Caesar's love for this queen of Egypt really "needled" the Roman people
More than 250,000 died in fighting before France granted this African nation independence July 3, 1962
This Navy commander flew from a base at Little America to the South Pole & back Nov. 28-29, 1929
This Portuguese "Admiral of the Indian Seas" discovered & named the Amirante Islands
This alumnus of Plato's Academy went on to found his own school, the Lyceum
In 1946, hours before he was to be hanged, this 2nd highest-ranking Nazi official took his own life
Stricken by leprosy, this Belgian Roman Catholic missionary died on the island of Molokai in 1889