After being rejected by his fiancée and coming down with tuberculosis, Edward Leedskalnin spent 28 years building the Coral Castle, a colossal oolite limestone structure
English Civil War, Lady Mary Bankes defended a castle from over 200 attackers with only five men. Held out for three years before being betrayed
A trawler was caught in the fallout of a nuclear test, killing its radioman; his last words were “I pray that I am the last victim of an atomic or hydrogen bomb