Posts by Radha Perera

Textbooks do a good job of creating legacies, but they don’t often focus on the horrible realities these legends lived every day.

Looking at childhood pictures of some of the most heinous people in history is horrifying when you realize that they once had faces so innocent and vulnerable.

Marriage has been a pawn in the political chess game played by centuries’ worth of the world’s most dominant dynasties and they have produced some rather questionable family trees along the way.

From there, they grew up to become some of history's greatest heroes and most ruthless dictators.