“America’s Best Girl” stole the nation’s heart by swimming the English Channel in 1926, and later dedicated herself to the deaf children she taught to swim
A disturbed doctor fell in love with his dying patient and lived with her corpse for seven years
Laura Ingalls Wilder wrote the story of her life in “Little House on the Prairie” with the help of a professional journalist who knew how to heighten drama—her daughter
Sue is the largest, best preserved and most complete T-Rex fossil ever found
When a Hollywood producer died shortly after a wild party on William Randolph Hearst’s yacht, there were whispers Charlie Chaplin was involved
Chilling photos document the contents of abandoned suitcases left behind by patients of the Willard Asylum
Lee Van Cleef, the “Bad” in Leone’s classic Western, was a decorated sonarman on a WWII minesweeper
Mathias Rust – The German teen that illegally landed a plane on The Red Square during the Cold War
When Carl Jung and Sigmund Freud met for the first time, they talked for thirteen hours, virtually without stopping
“Miss Mitchell’s Comet” was discovered by a female astronomer in 1847
