When he died in 1727, Sir Isaac Newton was buried with full honors in Westminster Abbey. His theories stood unchallenged for over 200 years and even today, whenever an engineer launches a rocket or a physicist solves a problem of motion, they are using the foundation laid down by this quiet, prickly genius who changed the world.

Arguably the most consequential figure in Roman history, Augustus took the Roman Republic and turned it into an Empire, all while telling everyone he was actually bringing the Republic back.

A man trapped in a failing body, yet whose mind explored the boundaries of space and time. Stephen Hawking was a groundbreaking theoretical physicist, a cosmologist who transformed our understanding of black holes and the origins of the universe, and a global icon.

Born Augusta Ada Byron, Ada Lovelace was the only legitimate child of the famously tumultuous Romantic poet, Lord Byron. But while her father wrote verses, Ada would go on to write something far more structured and groundbreaking: the world's very first computer program.

The word "Renaissance" literally means "rebirth" in French, and that's exactly what it was: a rebirth of classical learning, culture, and values from ancient Greece and Rome. It was a European golden age that produced some of the most famous art and brilliant minds in history. It shifted the way people saw themselves and their place in the world, and it laid the foundation for the modern era.

The Italian Renaissance was an age of giants, but among them, two names stand apart: Leonardo da Vinci and Michelangelo Buonarroti. But where Leonardo's genius was expansive, scientific, and endlessly curious, Michelangelo's was a force of nature - a passionate, tormented, and deeply spiritual power that he unleashed upon stone and paint.

Alongside the loud, explosive, and visible battles of the Second World War, another war was being fought. It was a silent, secret conflict waged not with bullets and bombs, but with mathematics and machines. It was a war of codes and ciphers, a battle of minds hidden away in the English countryside, and its outcome was just as crucial to the fate of the world. At the center of this secret war was one of the greatest minds of the 20th century: Alan Turing.

Alexander's life was a short, brilliant, and violent flame that blazed across the ancient world. He was a military genius, a visionary who founded cities that would become centers of learning, and a ruthless conqueror whose ambition cost hundreds of thousands of lives. He lived his life in pursuit of the immortal glory of his hero, Achilles, and he achieved it. He became the benchmark against which all future conquerors, from Caesar to Napoleon, would measure themselves, a figure so extraordinary that he forever blurred the line between man and myth.