A 69-year-old double amputee achieves lifelong dream of climbing the highest mountain in the world, Mount Everest
Beethoven, so deaf he couldn’t hear the applause for his Ninth Symphony, started every day counting 60 beans for coffee
The other Great Wall of China, in Nanjing, is the world’s longest circular city wall, completed in 1386
An ethnic minority in China refuses to give up their home—a massive 160-foot-high cave within remote mountain
Princess Diana, modern royal style icon, would not wear Chanel pumps after her divorce for a private reason
An Australian railway man saved more than 2 million babies—including his own grandchild—with a simple donation of blood
Despite early 1900s discrimination, an African American woman founded a bank in Virginia, becoming the first female bank president of any race in the U.S.