In 1841, young Ishmael signs up for service aboard the Pequod, a whaler sailing out of New Bedford. The ship is under the command of Captain Ahab, a strict disciplinarian…

Henry Hobson owns and tyrannically runs a successful Victorian boot maker’s shop in Salford, England. A stingy widower with a weakness for overindulging in the local Moonraker Public House, he…

Rural Australian Nellie Melba becomes an opera star in 1900s Europe and the United States.

An Irish “oracle” foretells the next day’s track results to a newspaperman, resulting in a national uproar.