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Tower of London (1597)
Catholic dissenter John Gerard fled on a rope stretched from the Tower roof to a getaway rowboat.
Libby Prison (1864)
Captive Union soldiers tunneled from this Virginia prison into a nearby yard; 109 walked away.
Lake County Jail (1934)
John Dillinger, brandishing a wooden gun blackened with shoe polish, bailed in the sheriff’s Ford.
Auschwitz (1944)
Rudolf Vrba and Alfred Wetzler hid in a woodpile for [...]

Alexander III (356-323 B.C.), king of Macedon, parlayed his father Philip II’s conquest of Greece into an empire that expanded from the Balkans to the Nile to the Himalayas, subduing tens of millions of people along the way.
Like Napoleon, Alexander was rather short. He was blond with a ruddy complexion, and according to one source, [...]