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.
With very little food and no money to buy provisions starving Irish families looked to the government for help.
President William Jefferson Clinton posthumously awarded Cesar Chavez a Presidential Medal of Freedom in 1994.
Dr. Jonas Salk and his team developed a polio vaccine at a time when children were dying of the illness. Declared safe and effective, in 1955, the vac...
Operation Uranus proved to be a brilliant rescue plan for the city of Stalingrad. It led to the defeat of Hitler's forces in the Russian city.
In March of 1945, pilots of the 332nd Fighter Group - some of the Tuskegee Airmen who'd received their flight training at Tuskegee Institute - escorte...
One of the 99th's first missions was to participate in action over the island of Pantelleria, in the Mediterranean, when they escorted bombers during ...
WARNING: MICHELANGELO WAS AN ARTIST WHO PAINTED AND SCULPTED.
Rick Rescorla, an employee for Morgan Stanley, worked in the World Trade Center and worried about a future terrorist attack. He planned ahead, in case...
Robben Island lies off the coast of Cape Town and, according to the Robben Island Museum, has been an off-and-on prison site for hundreds of years:Peo...
This image depicts the cramped cell in which Nelson Mandela lived on Robben Island.
General Lee loves his horse, Traveller, but what do we really know about their special relationship?
Robert Goddard was given the title "Father of Modern Rocketry" by NASA for his impact on the science of rockets.
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