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.
As an unfavorable wind began pushing Spanish ships toward the sand banks of Flanders, priests on board ship began hearing the sailors' last confession...
In late July, of 1942, Stalin issued an order (Number 227). The Soviet leader told the people of the city named after him to resist the coming German ...
When Vladimir Lenin died, and Joseph Stalin came to power, people in the Soviet Union were forced to change the way they conducted business.
This image depicts a plaster cast which copies a marble statue of Oinomaos, the father of Hippodameia.
Stieg Larsson used Astrid Lindgren's famous fictional character - Pippi Longstocking - as a model for his fictional character, Lisbeth Salander.
Photo image of the New York Stock exchange just after the market crash on the 27th of October, 1929.
Stockholm - where Lake Malaren meets the Baltic Sea - is built on an archipelago.
A "buy now, pay later" method of credit is introduced to the stock market as "buying on margin." How did this affect the market?
Like thousands of other people, Winston Churchill lost a fortune in the New York stock exchange crash of October 1929.
This image depicts Thomas Jonathon Jackson, known later in his life as Stonewall Jackson, as he appeared circa 1851.
It is believed that Peter died in Rome, outside the city limits at Nero's Circus, and was buried in a nearby cemetery.
Georgi Zelma (1906-1984) was born in the town of Tashkent in Uzbekistan (which, for a time, was one of the fifteen Republics of the Soviet Union).
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