Whether natural or man-made, disasters simultaneously cause massive destruction and unity of people trying to help those in need. Discover some of the world's worst disasters in this collection.
When he was unable to run the entire race, at the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona, Derek Redmond did something even better.
After Erasmus Jacobs, son of a poor South African farmer, finds a sparkly pebble along the southern bank of the Orange River, parts of the South Afric...
Three days after Anne Frank told "Kitty" about an unsettling conversation with her father - that the Frank family may have to go into hiding somewhere...
Anne Frank, a Jewish girl living with her family in Amsterdam, was thirteen years old during the summer of 1942. At the time, German forces were...
While he was on the run, following his escape from Washington, John Wilkes Booth recorded his thoughts in a diary. Some of its pages are missing, lead...
When Napoleon and his men reach the Berezina River, they find the bridge destroyed and the river thawed. To escape a trap, they must build a 100-mete...
Sully and Jeff Skiles had 208 seconds between a bird strike and a forced water landing on the Hudson. Both testified during the NTSB investigation.
See the massive Allied bombing attack on Dresden, during February and March of 1945. Bomb runs began on February 13th, reducing the city to utter deva...
Portrait of Dr. Guillotin who sought a more-humane method of capital punishment during the French Revolution.
Dr. Richard Feynman was always known for speaking his mind. When his work led him to a conclusion which seemed at odds with the conclusions (or desire...
Life in Pie Town, New Mexico—during the Depression-era time when the Caudills and others met photographer Russell Lee—meant living with di...
People and animals, who became victims of Vesuvius in 79 AD, were buried in hot volcanic ash. As the ash hardened (volcanic ash does not dissolve in w...
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