Biographies Chapters

We may know about a famous person's accomplishments, but what do we know about THEM? What is the human-interest story in THEIR lives? This biography collection features the stories behind the lives of some famous (and not-so-famous) individuals.

75 years ago, an atomic bomb, known as "Little Boy," devastates the Japanese city of Hiroshima and its people on August 6, 1945.

An atomic bomb called "Fat Man" detonates above the Japanese city of Nagasaki on August 9, 1945. Less than a week later, Japan surrenders, ending WWII...

Years after Bonhoeffer's death, people still recall the courage of a pastor who was willing to actively resist the evils of the Third Reich. Decades ...

Police find paper wrappings, cartridges, a rifle and fingerprints on the sixth floor of the Dallas School Book Depository.

There are few sources referencing Boone's trial, but some are available.

Daniel Boone is a defendant in a court martial. The criminal charges against him assert that is a traitor.

Sergt. Boston Corbett shoots and kills Booth as he hides in a barn near Port Royal, Virginia.

After an opponent dies following a fight in 1743, John ("Jack")Broughton introduces boxing's first rules.

The Ancient Greeks support boxing as a sport when they include it in the Olympics as a early as 688 BC.

In 1935, the underdog Braddock fightschampion Max Baerfor the Heavyweight title and wins.

Mayes' Tuscan home is named Bramasole (English translation is "yearning for the sun").

Polish mathematicians help Britain's Alan Turing create a decoder to the Enigma machine.

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