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.
Although it was time for bed, Harold Thomas Cottam decided to check his wireless one more time before leaving his station for the night. The actions o...
This image, from the German Federal Archives, depicts Heinrich Himmler at the Dachau Concentration Camp in 1936.
Helen Keller first realized the meaning of words when her teacher (Annie Sullivan) spelled “water” (w-a-t-e-r) in her hand on the 5th of April, 18...
Helen Keller became the first non-seeing, non-hearing person to enroll in an institution for higher learning - and then to graduate with a degree.
When twenty of the shipwrecked crew of the Essex arrive at Henderson Island, three decide to stay. They had previously discovered a cave on the island...
Johannes Hevelius was an astronomer who, for years, studied the sky without the benefit of a telescope. Born in 1611, in the town of Danzig—then...
See the instrument - an azimuthal quadrant - which Johannes Hevelius used to study the heavens ... and get accurate readings ... with the naked eye. ...
When Germany's rigid airships were able to travel long distances, they required special recovery procedures to help them land. This video footage depi...
All the Allies wanted to capture Wernher von Braun. On the morning of April 11, 1945, the Americans found his underground production facility.
Scientists working for Hitler's Third Reich continued to work, after the war, but for the United States. Historians believe that the U.S. rocket progr...
The day after he accepted the Nobel Peace Prize, in December of 1986, Elie Wiesel gave a Nobel lecture entitled "Hope, Despair and Memory."
Still a national hero in Britain, Lord Horatio Nelson helps to save his country from invasion.
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