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.
Ethan Allen wrote a narrative about his war experiences, including Ticonderogas fall:The authority of the Congress being very little known at the time...
It didn't matter what Catherine said. People, everywhere, believed that she and her cow had started the "Great Fire."
Bitterly disagreeing that his country should surrender to the Nazis, in June of 1940, de Gaulle was an outspoken critic of the Vichy regime.
Son of a beheaded British monarch, Charles II was Prince of Wales when his father was executed. At the time, he was living on the Continent.
Charles Nelson Reilly - who became a famous actor, comedian, director and drama teacher - was attending the Ringling Bros. circus, in Hartford, on the...
On the 1st of December, 1958, Our Lady of the Angels School, in Chicago, was the scene of a catastrophic fire.
The children, featured in this fountain, are dancing the Khorovod. The Khorovod is a type of common circle dance which Russian children loved to do b...
Christmas Island, located in the Indian Ocean off the coast of northwest Australia, is the top of an underwater mountain.
"I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears, and sweat." -Winston Churchill
On the 4th of June, 1940, Winston Churchill addressed Parliament about the rescue of surrounded British and French soldiers at Dunkirk. It was the la...
The Civil Rights Act of 1875 was intended to provide protection for African-Americans. The United States Supreme Court, however, found it to be ...
Religious leaders in Cleveland protest the buidling of a segregated school, but a deadly accident fails to stop its construction.
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