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.
Theodore G. ("The Man") Bilbo (1877-1947) was a Democratic Mississippi politician who served as state governor and U.
The real U-571 was not the actual U-boat featured in the film, U-571. The real U-571 sank west of Ireland after it was attacked by an RAAF crew operat...
As a massive fire ravaged their town, people fled toward the Peshtigo River.
Tech Sgt. Rick Smith's unit had a motto on the 30th of October, 1991: "These things we do, that others may live." His daughters are following in his f...
It's 110 years since America's largest-recorded avalanche struck the town of Wellington in Washington state. How did this disaster occur?
The poem of Robert Dwyer Joyce - The Wind that Shakes the Barley - has been set to hauntingly beautiful music.
Before the Civil War erupted, Thomas Jonathon Jackson was a professor at VMI (Virginia Military Institute).
John Starr March - a 48-year-old American postal clerk working on board Titanic - liked being "at sea."
Tommy John, a Major-League pitcher, is known as much for a surgical procedure named after him as he is for his MLB career.
This drawing depicts how a healthy tendon is harvested, from elsewhere in a pitcher's body, to repair an ulnar collateral ligament damaged by the mech...
After his marriage to Anne Boleyn - and the birth of their daughter, Elizabeth - Henry VIII decided to look elsewhere for a wife.
Typhoid Fever - a life-threatening disease caused by bacteria, not by a virus - still impacts about 21.5 million people every year.
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