Tragedies and Triumphs Story Briefs

Working on Deepwater Horizon, Mike Williams had to jump approximately ten stories from the rig to save his life.

As men looked for diamonds, soon after they were first discovered in South Africa, the landscape holding the precious stones was quickly transformed.

Ending on June 4, "Operation Dynamo" was a major naval rescue mission to save Allied forces from annihilation at the hands of Germany during the late ...

An astonishing true story about an ice-jammed British ship whose planks were transformed into the U.S. President's desk.

What does the Central Gulf of Mexico look like, from a geological perspective?

The Mississippi Canyon, a geological formation in the Gulf of Mexico, is located in an area which is part of the territorial waters of the United Stat...

Mollie Steimer was born in Russia on the 21st of November, 1897. Living in New York, she protest America's involvement in WWI and was deported, by the...

As he watches Marley's Ghost leave, through the window of his home, Scrooge is shocked to see and hear more phantoms flying in the sky with long chain...

After the war, POWs who had been incarcerated in Japanese camps all told the same story about Mutsuhiro (Matsuhiro) Watanabe - whom prisoners called "...

This sketch of Naoetsu Camp 4 - created from memory, after the war was over - is from "A Bridge Across the Pacific Ocean" (a Japanese-language book).

Louis Zamperini and his crew mates aboard their B-24, called Super man, attacked Japanese-controlled Nauru on April 21, 1943.

This image depicts Philip Johnston visiting members of the Navajo Nation at their hogan.