Remarkable Figures in History

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Yaoya Oshichi: The Forbidden Flame of Love

PrologueThe setting is the Edo capital period, in the second year of Tenwa (1682).Under the reign of the fifth Shogun, T...
Remarkable Figures in History

Charlotte Corday: The Woman Who Killed for Freedom – A True Story of Revolution and Sacrifice

PrologueJuly 1793. The sky over Paris was endlessly clear, yet the streets carried the scent of blood.The fever of revol...
Queens & Empresses

Zenobia: The Rebel Queen Who Challenged the Emperor

Prologue: The Woman Who Shook an EmpireHer name was Zenobia.Queen of Palmyra—and the woman who dared to claim the same c...
Remarkable Figures in History

Yim Wing Chun: The Girl Whose Fist Surpassed Strength

Prologue: A Fist in the MistDeep within the mountains of Daliangshan, Sichuan—Shrouded in mist lies a quiet village, nes...
Cultural Icons

Rui Sasaki: The Black Demon of Edo’s Underworld

PrologueEdo―― In this great city where samurai strode proudly through the streets and townspeople struggled to survive e...
Remarkable Figures in History

Tomoe Gozen: The Female Samurai

At the end of the Heian period, amidst the turmoil of war that engulfed Japan, there was a beautiful yet fierce female w...
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Cleopatra VII : the Last Queen of the Nile

Prologue: Legacy and OathIn 323 BCE, the great conqueror Alexander the Great took his final breath.As he lay on his deat...
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Isabeau Cheyné: The Truth Burned by the Lies of Witch Hunts

Prologue: The Witch Hunt Era in FranceIn the 17th century, in the Vivarais region of southern France.War, plague, and fa...
Remarkable Figures in History

Simo Häyhä: The Legendary Sniper Feared as the ‘White Death’

PrologueDecember 17, 1905.In the village of Rautjärvi, southeastern Finland.In this small village, surrounded by deep fo...