When horrific things happen, how a person responds can make a difference in the rest of one's life. In this collection, learn how some individuals triumphed in the face of unspeakable tragedies.
Image of the Operation "Valkyrie" plans.
This slide highlights some of the myths involving a scene on the East Pediment of the Temple of Zeus at Olympia. King Oinomaos, father of the beautif...
This excerpt from the Congressional Record reveals that Navajo Code Talkers, and their secret code, were so significant to the War in the Pacific that...
This document, released by NASA, shows early objections to the design of the O-Rings and the potential for joint leakage. The document is dated ...
Personnel from the Marshall Space Flight Center, in Alabama, objected to lowering the standards for the SRM (Solid Rocket Motor) O-Rings and clevis jo...
Personnel from the Marshall Space Flight Center, in Alabama, objected to lowering the standards for the SRM (Solid Rocket Motor) O-Rings and clevis jo...
NASA personnel, at the Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, were very concerned about Morton Thiokol's position on the O-ring and clevis-joint ...
Thirty years after the crash, Pan Am's first officer (Robert Bragg) told his story in Flight Safety Australia: As we were turning left, I looked back...
Bookcover image of Rettung über die Ostsee. Die Flucht aus den Ostseehäfen, (Rescue on the Baltic Sea: The escape from the Baltic Seaports),...
Soon after Philip Johnston requested a Marine Corps enlistment, to allow him to work with Navajo Code Talkers, he received this Special-Delivery respo...
John Wilkes Booth accepted an invitation to perform the lead role in a benefit play - The Apostate, by Richard Lalor Sheil (an Irishman) - on Saturday...
Speaking for a seven-person majority, with Justice John Marshall Harlan dissenting, Justice Henry Billings Brown delivered the opinion of the court in...
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