Born into a wealthy British Catholic family, Margaret Brent emigrated to North America in 1638 and settled in Maryland colony, attracted by its policy of religious toleration. She came with a land ...

Artemisia I became the tyrant of Halicarnassus in the fifth century B.C.E. Legend states that she fought in the Battle of Salamis in 480 B.C.E. as a commander on the side of the Persians, who were ...