The London Bridge Station is where William Pierce, Edward Agar, William Tester, and James Burgess boarded the train they would soon rob on May 15, 1855. Agar hid in the guard car with Burgess while Tester and Pierce sat in first class. The crew would successfully pull of one of London's greatest train heists, stealing around €12,000 in solid gold (1.5 million US dollars today).

Thermopylae, or the 'Gates of Fire,' was an ancient mountain pass held during its eponymous battle during the Persian invasions of Greece in the 5th century BCE. Fighting back the 'Immortal' soldiers of Achaemenid Emperor Xerxes, King Leonidas led his Spartan and allied Greek soldiers in a glorious warriors' suicide mission. They held off the Persian invasion for long enough, however, to stall the Persian advance until they were betrayed by a local Greek named Ephialtes.

Wales is a country that composes part of the United Kingdom. It makes up one of the smaller nations of the island of Great Britain often unhappily as a result of their eastern neighbors, the English. Similar to Scotland, Wales was conquered and ruled by an outside ethnic group, the English. In the 1200s, Wales was conquered by the rising English who steadily beat back Viking incursions. Wales regained independence in the 1500s briefly, but it was reclaimed soon after by the English.

Known as one of the birthplaces of great ancient civilizations, Egypt in the early 1700s had fallen far from its height under the Pharoahs. From the 1600s until the 1800s, Egypt was under Ottoman rule with its provincial capital at Cairo. Ottoman rule did not stop the Egyptian economy, nor its culture, and it remained an extremely important international trade city widely known for its high quality textiles and carpets. Despite that, the relations between the Turkish imperialists and the Egyptian subjects were often violent as a result of ethnic and religious clashes.