Accused of accepting bribes, Francis Bacon was imprisoned in this forbidding complex in 1621
Since 1969 this Northern Ireland port city of 300,000 has been the site of violent religious conflict
More than 250,000 died in fighting before France granted this African nation independence July 3, 1962
This city located on the Rhine River became West Germany's capital in 1949
In 1784 she founded the city of Sevastopol in her new domain of the Crimea
It's the capital of Catalonia
This Portuguese "Admiral of the Indian Seas" discovered & named the Amirante Islands
This alumnus of Plato's Academy went on to found his own school, the Lyceum
In the second Punic War, this Carthaginian general almost defeated Rome
The first Englishman to sail around the world, he later served in the British Parliament