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.
After the war, Eugene Sledge spent several months in China with the occupying forces.
This video biography about Eugene Sledge - author of With the Old Breed - uses archival war footage (from the U.
In 1953, Sir Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay were the first two people known to scale the summit of Mt.
Years after his death, the "Big Bopper's" body is remarkably well preserved. For the first time, the Bopper's son actually sees his father.
In June of 2004, Dr.
Professor Wiles has won the Abel Prize for solving Fermat's Last Theorem. How long did it take to solve it? How did he do it?
On the 1st of December, 1958, Chicago was the scene of another catastrophic fire.
Two days after launch, the shuttle Columbia returned to Earth.
On the 12th of April, 1981, the United States launched the shuttle Columbia into space.
On 18 March 1965, Aleksei Leonov was the first person to walk in space.
Kolyma, where the land is covered by permafrost for nine months and summers are insufferably hot, was once the scene of a notorious forced labor camp.
Vorkuta, in Russia's northern climes, was once home to a Soviet-era forced labor camp.
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