AN ILLUSTRATED, FACT-CHECKED STORYBOOK SERIES

People Worth
Knowing

Deeply researched, beautifully told. The stories search can’t give you.

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LATEST VOLUME — XX · AVIATOR
Amelia Earhart

She vanished at the peak of flight — and the search never really ended. Nine chapters, from a Kansas bluff to the static over Howland Island.

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VOLUMES I–XX · FACT-CHECKED

The Shelf

VOLUME I · ELECTRICAL PIONEER
Nikola Tesla

He electrified the world, then died broke, feeding pigeons.

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VOLUME II · PHYSICIST
Albert Einstein

The patent clerk who redrew space and time.

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VOLUME III · PHYSICIST
J. Robert Oppenheimer

Father of the bomb; destroyer of his own clearance.

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VOLUME IV · CONSTRUCTOR
Enzo Ferrari

He never watched his cars cross the line. He built them to leave.

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VOLUME V · INDUSTRIALIST
Ferruccio Lamborghini

A tractor maker, insulted by Enzo — so he built a rival.

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VOLUME VI · MARTIAL ARTIST
Bruce Lee

Be water: the fighter who broke Hollywood’s wall.

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VOLUME VII · POLYMATH
Leonardo da Vinci

Seven thousand pages of questions, a handful of finished answers.

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VOLUME VIII · PHARAOH
Cleopatra VII

The last pharaoh spoke nine languages — and ruled Rome’s rulers.

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VOLUME IX · HEAVYWEIGHT
Muhammad Ali

The Greatest — loud, banned, and vindicated.

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VOLUME X · COMPOSER
Wolfgang A. Mozart

Thirty-five years, six hundred works, one unmarked grave.

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VOLUME XI · REAR ADMIRAL
Grace Hopper

The admiral who taught computers English.

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VOLUME XII · EMPEROR
Napoleon Bonaparte

The outsider who crowned himself.

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VOLUME XIII · FOUNDER
Steve Jobs

The showman who made computers personal. Twice.

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VOLUME XIV · CONQUEROR
Alexander the Great

Undefeated at thirty-two — and dead.

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VOLUME XV · PERFORMER · SPY
Josephine Baker

Danced for Paris, spied for the Resistance.

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VOLUME XVI · MATHEMATICIAN
George Boole

A schoolmaster’s algebra became every circuit on Earth.

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VOLUME XVII · INFORMATION THEORIST
Claude Shannon

The juggling unicyclist who invented the bit.

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VOLUME XVIII · CODEBREAKER
Alan Turing

He broke Enigma. His country broke him.

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VOLUME XIX · ESCAPE ARTIST
Harry Houdini

No lock could hold him. One punch did.

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VOLUME XX · AVIATOR
Amelia Earhart

She vanished at the peak of flight. The search never ended.

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A SEPARATE WING — MYTH, NOT HISTORY

THE LEGENDS

Animated retellings of stories that were never history — kept deliberately apart from the Volumes. Nothing here carries a verification tag, because none of it happened.

LEG. 01 · ANIMATED SHORT · 01:25
ICARUS

The boy who flew too close to the sun — and why we keep telling on him.

LEG. 02 · ANIMATED SHORT · 01:05
PROMETHEUS

The fire-thief chained to the mountain, and the price of a gift.

LEG. 03 · ANIMATED SHORT · 01:10
ORPHEUS & EURYDICE

He talked the dead into giving her back. He couldn’t quite keep the one condition.

LEG. 04 · ANIMATED SHORT · 01:11
PANDORA

A woman built to be irresistible, and a jar she was told never to open.

LEG. 05 · ANIMATED SHORT · 01:27
HERCULES

A fall no one forgives, twelve labors that don't undo it, and an ending none of the others reached.

LEG. 06 · ANIMATED SHORT · 01:13
PERSEUS & MEDUSA

An impossible promise, a monster no one can look at and live, and a homecoming that proves he wasn't bluffing.

LEG. 07 · ANIMATED SHORT · 01:32
ACHILLES

A river that couldn’t quite make him unbreakable, a choice between two kinds of life, and a war that costs him everything.

LEG. 08 · ANIMATED SHORT · 01:30
JASON & THE GOLDEN FLEECE

A crew of heroes, a sorceress whose help isn’t free, and a quest built to kill him quietly.

LEG. 09 · ANIMATED SHORT · 01:18
ATALANTA

Raised by a bear, unbeaten on foot by any man — until someone stopped trying to outrun her.

LEG. 10 · ANIMATED SHORT · 01:29
THESEUS

A labyrinth with no way out, a monster that had never lost, and a thread thin enough to lead him home.

LEG. 11 · ANIMATED SHORT · 01:24
PERSEPHONE

A stolen goddess, a mother's grief that starved the world, and a bargain that shaped every season since.

LEG. 12 · ANIMATED SHORT · 01:40
SISYPHUS

The man clever enough to outsmart Death itself — and the eternity of pushing a boulder that it cost him.

LEG. 13 · ANIMATED SHORT · 01:45
CUPID & PSYCHE

A forbidden lamp, a broken promise, and impossible trials — the rare myth where love actually wins.

LEG. 14 · ANIMATED SHORT · 01:32
ARACHNE

A weaver whose skill was flawless, whose pride was fatal, and whose punishment became her craft forever.

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