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.
Margaret Utinsky, an American nurse whose efforts greatly aided the Cabanatuan prisoners, lost her husband to the prison camp's horrifying conditions....
For 3 years, Marion Post (later known as Marion Post Wolcott) was a principal photographer in the Farm Security Administration's Historical Section.
On the 15th of June, 1520, Pope Leo X ordered Martin Luther to recant 41 of his 95 Theses and to stop preaching about those items in his sermons. Luth...
Queen Mary was the wife of George V and the mother of two additional British kings: Edward VIII (who abdicated) and George VI (who helmed the British ...
Elizabeth I signed her cousin's death warrant. This image depicts a segment of the only surviving copy of that death warrant.
About six hours before she was executed, Mary Queen of Scots wrote a final letter to her brother-in-law (the King of France, brother of her first husb...
Before and after casts for making masks line the wall of the Anna's Studio in Paris.
By the 27th of April, the Deepwater Horizon plume was moving toward the coastline of Louisiana.
Composition of bodies: Elements and Humors - a miniature for On the Properties of Things [a thirteenth-century book translated into French during the ...
This Welsh song, from the 18th century, remains popular. This stirring rendition is by the Royal Regiment of Wales' Band.
Image of a drawing, created by Lt.
This plane was the Soviet Union's first supersonic fighter. It was the USSR's primary fighter jet during the last half of the 1950s.
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