HISTORIES
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STALIN
Ruler of Russia from
1928-53
His mother had
wanted him to
become a
priest…
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Instead, he
became the
worst mass
murderer of all
time, killing 2060 million
people.
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WHERE DID THIS MONSTER COME FROM?
Read about the hardships of his
childhood– a battle with a lifethreatening illness, an accident
that left him crippled, and an
abusive, alcoholic father.
Find out why he was kicked out
of the seminary and turned to a
life of crime committing
vandalism and becoming a
violent gangster– robbing
banks, planes and ships.
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THE TSAR
Learn about Russia’s cruel tsar, a
dictator who could do whatever he
wanted, who ruled during Stalin’s
childhood.
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Find out about the rebellion of poor
farmers and laborers who, led by
philosopher Karl Marx, plotted to
overthrow the tsar.
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OVERTHROWING THE TSAR
Read about how 3 million
Russians died during World
War I and how a large group
of workers, known as the
Bolsheviks, captured,
imprisoned and then
murdered the tsar and his
family.
Learn about the hopes and
plans of millions of Russians
after the tsar was gone.
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STALIN’S RISE TO POWER
Find out how Stalin and
another leader named
Lenin made promises to
the people and inspired
them to take the country
back from the rich.
Discover how millions
died.
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STALIN’S RUTHLESSNESS
Read about Stalin’s
suspicions and cruelties-burning villages to the
ground, shooting anyone
who resisted, and killing
“traitors” with firing
squads.
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STALIN’S EVIL REIGN BEGINS
Discover how Stalin
eliminated all rivals to
become the new leader of
Russia.
Learn about his greatest
ambition as a leader and
how he used his evil
secret police force to deal
with defiant people.
Find out why millions were
executed and enslaved.
THE GREAT TERROR
Find out why two million
people disappeared during
his reign.
Learn about slave labor
camps and the deaths of
millions more.
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PARANOIA
Read why so many Russians
confessed to crimes they didn’t
commit and turned on each
other. Find out why everyone
became a spy– husbands
turning on wives and children
turning on their parents.
Find out why mass graves were
everywhere.
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STALIN AND HITLER
Find out why two million
Russian Jews died and
why Stalin switched sides
during World War II.
Read why another 26
million Russians were
dead, why 26 million were
homeless, and why
millions were wounded.
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And the most
shocking thing
of all…
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STALIN’S CULT OF PERSONALITY
Find out why Stalin’s
people loved him,
respected him and
attributed all good things
to him.
Discover why nobody
dared speak against him.
STALIN, THE HERO
Find out why the phrase
“Thank You Dear Comrade
Stalin for a Happy Childhood!"
appeared above doorways at
nurseries, orphanages, and
schools. Read why children
chanted this slogan at
festivals.
Read why newspapers wrote
wonderful articles about him
and why songs, paintings,
films and poems were
created in his honor.
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BLOODY MARY
She had a
reputation for being
kind…
but more people
were executed for
heresy under her
reign than any other
time in England.
BLOODY MARY 1516-1558
Henry VIII and wife #1: Catherine of Aragon
Read about Mary Tudor,
the daughter of King
Henry VIII of England and
the first of his six
consecutive wives,
Catherine of Aragon.
Find out why her father,
King Henry VIII, was
obsessed with having a
son and why he arranged
for his 2 year old daughter
to marry the Prince of
France.
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MARY’S CHILDHOOD
Read about why her
childhood was miserable
and how she spent most
of her time.
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HER FATHER BREAKS WITH THE CATHOLIC
CHURCH
Find out why her father
divorced his wife, broke away
from the Pope and the
Church in Rome, declared
himself the head of the
Church of England, and
wanted nothing more to do
with his daughter.
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WICKED STEPMOTHER
Read about Mary’s new stepmother,
Anne Boleyn, and how Mary was
forced to become her half-sister’s
maid.
Find out why anyone treated Mary like
a princess would be punished by
death.
Discover why King Henry VIII had his
new wife beheaded and why he was
very pleased with his third wife, Jane
Seymour.
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MARY FIGHTS FOR THE THRONE
Find out about Henry VIII’s next three wives, another one of
whom was beheaded, and why, after Henry VIII’s death, Mary
raised an army of 30,000 and declared herself queen.
Discover her greatest desire for her country.
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IMPRISONING HER SISTER
Discover why she had her
cousin, Lady Jane Grey,
beheaded and her halfsister Elizabeth put in the
tower of London.
Read why she had three
hundred “enemies”
hanged and burned at the
stake.
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FINAL DAYS
Find out how she found a younger
husband even though she was
sickly, emaciated, and nearly
toothless.
Read why she claimed to be
pregnant twice, but wasn’t, and
why she continued to kill
Protestants until her death.
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Why was Caesar
the most respected
AND the most despised
leader of Rome?
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CAESAR’S YOUTH
Find out about Caesar’s
childhood, education and
what it was like to grow up
in the biggest, most
powerful city in the world.
Read why Caesar believed
he had a special destiny in
life.
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TERROR IN ROME
Discover what brought
terror to Rome, caused
the streets to become a
battleground, and
changed Caesar’s life
forever.
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TYRANT UNCLE
Find out how Caesar’s
uncle, the tyrant Marius,
rose to power and had his
enemies’ severed heads
nailed around the Forum.
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FATHER’S DEATH
Learn about how Caesar’s
father died suddenly when
Caesar was just 16 and
how Caesar struggled to
survive in his troubled city.
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CAESAR’S LIFE IN DANGER
Discover how Caesar tried
to protect himself by
marrying the daughter of
the most powerful man in
Rome.
Read why that plan
backfired on him while,
again, severed heads were
displayed on stakes
around the Forum.
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CAESAR, THE ROMANTIC
Discover why young
Caesar chose to stay
married to his wife even
though it meant that he
had to run for his life.
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(James mason as Julius Caesar in Shakespeare's play)
KIDNAPPED BY PIRATES!
Find out how young
Caesar survived being
kidnapped by pirates and
how he got his cruel
revenge on them after
they set him free and why
the pirates were RELIEVED
to have their throats
slashed.
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RISE TO POWER
Learn how a man with no
public service experience,
who had not distinguished
himself in battle, prepared
to get himself elected to
one of Rome’s highest
offices.
Read about his greatest
charms.
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BLOODY REBELLION
Learn why 6,000 slaves were crucified on Roman roads
and how Caesar became an advocate for the poor.
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“REALITY” ENTERTAINMENT
Find out how an
advantageous
second marriage,
some bribery and
some gruesome
entertainment in
the Circus Maximus
helped him gain
position and
popularity.
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CAESAR’S OBSESSION
Read about how far
Caesar would go to gain
power.
Learn how he made
alliances, bribed and
influenced others to get
what he wanted.
Discover why he married
his 16-year-old daughter
off to a 47-year-old man.
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CAESAR, THE WAR HERO
Find out how Caesar
described himself as a
hero in reports to the
Roman Senate while he
burned lands, beheaded
several hundred people
and sold thousands of
people into slavery.
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FRIENDS AND ENEMIES
Learn why many former
friends became enemies
and why he couldn’t even
return to Rome without his
army.
Discover how he was
seduced by Cleopatra and
vowed to help her
overthrow her brother, the
king of Egypt.
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“I CAME, I SAW, I CONQUERED”
Discover how more
victories of war in Gaul,
Egypt, Asia and North
Africa won Caesar fame.
Learn how he captured the
Republic by force, became
dictator with absolute
power and began to
rebuild Rome.
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CONSPIRACY
Read about what
motivated senators
Brutus and Cassius to
conspire against
Caesar and
assassinate him in
public on the floor of
the Senate.
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• Discover the world of
the Chinese emperors
of days gone by. Why
would a family be willing
to sell their daughter
into the imperial family?
• Read about what it took
to get ahead in that
world.
A Real Oxymoron
Unearth the
strange
contradictions
between
traditional
Chinese religion
and the political
practices of the
imperial family.
Who Wears the Pants?
• Learn about creating
alliances and gaining
power in a man’s world.
• Read about why the
peasants of China were
so angry and restless
and why they wanted to
overthrow the imperial
regime.
• Discover the shocking
facts about the origins
of opium consumption
in China.
Everyone wants a piece of China
• Read about political
turmoil and military
insurrection in a nation
practically under siege
from the West.
• Learn about what was
practically a Western
invasion of the great
empire.
No briefs, just Boxers!
• Learn about an
empress who created
a multi-national war
that caused her army
to have to fight an
alliance that included
France, Russia,
England, The United
States, Germany, Italy,
Japan ,and AustriaHungary just to kick
the foreigners out of
her country and keep
her people ignorant of
the ways of the rest of
the world.
Can’t Let Go!
• Read about the
internal struggles over
the modernization of
one of the oldest
civilizations in the
world.
• Try to imagine an old
empress with
thousands of boxes
bracelets, pins, and
other pieces of jewelry.
Then imagine that
most of her subjects
lived in huts and didn’t
have enough to eat.
VLAD DRACULA
• Learn of the son who
repeatedly refused to
keep the political
promises his prominent
father had made perhaps
because his father had
sold him out to their
enemies.
• Read about the REAL
Transylvanian monster.
• Politics and intrigue
abounded even as the
Black Death raged across
Europe.
• Learn about how Vlad
used his charm and
education to fool
foreign leaders into not
recognizing his brutality
until it was too late.
• Read about the
remarkable collection
that dotted his castle
walls.
Foundations
• Discover unique
building elements
which were used to
create his great
castle in
Transylvania.
• Learn how creating
a powerful image
to terrify his
enemies and keep
his allies on their
toes was all
important.
• Find out what happened when all his ‘friends’ got
tired of his gamesmanship!
Dracula himself was not a
vampire but a cruel 15th-century
Wallachian prince, Vlad Tepes,
known as "the impaler" because
of his habit of impaling enemies
on wooden stakes.
Pamphlets about his exploits
became popular in Europe in the
middle ages. Germans depicted
him as a monster, Russians as a
hero trying to liberate his people
from Turkish and Hungarian
oppression.
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THE PLANS ARE
STILL IN THE WORKS!
Some say he was
responsible for the deaths of
over 100,000 people, yet his
home is now being
developed as a tourist
attraction and amusement
park. Try to determine why
some people in Romania
consider Vlad Dracula to
have been an hero.