We may know about a famous person's accomplishments, but what do we know about THEM? What is the human-interest story in THEIR lives? This biography collection features the stories behind the lives of some famous (and not-so-famous) individuals.
On the 1st of December, 1955, Rosa Parks was riding on a bus in Montgomery, Alabama. When the driver ordered her to give-up her seat for a white perso...
Sacajawea (Sacagawea) was the only woman with the Corps of Discovery expedition.
On January 6, 1838, Samuel Morse successfully tests an electrical telegraph. So why did it take years longer to send the first message?
For nearly 50 years, scientists around the world have been thinking about, and searching for, a sub-atomic particle called the "Higgs Boson.
Story of Heinrich Harrer
C.S. Lewis, an unmarried professor whom his friends called Jack, was a highly successful writer when he met an American woman named Joy Davidman Gresh...
C.S. ("Jack") Lewis found love late in life, but his marriage to Joy Gresham did not last long.
The Shah of Iran was ill when he left America for a short stay in Panama. While in that Central American country - during mid-January, 1980 - ...
Tatanka-Iyotanka (more commonly misspelled Tatanka Yotanka [or, Yotaka]) - a Hunkpapa Lakota Sioux holy man who was also known as Chief Sitting Bull -...
Solzhenitsyn died in Moscow, reportedly of a heart ailment, at the age of 89.
In 1957, the U.S. government - via the CIA - commissioned a documentary entitled "South Africa under Apartheid.
What is the background for developing, and launching, Sputnik - the world's first artificial satellite?
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