Army dentist, killed 98 Japanese soldiers during the Battle of Saipan before he was killed – after being shot 76 times
Freed slave wrote sarcastic letter to his former master after he asked him to come back to his plantation
In WWI, a British prisoner of war was released from German prison camp to see his dying mother on the promise that he would return, and he did
Leona Harriet Woods was the only female member of the team which built the world’s first nuclear reactor …
An army of 1000 Japanese soldiers was decimated by saltwater crocodiles during the Battle of Ramree Island of World War II.
Dimitar Peshev – the deputy speaker of the Bulgarian parliament that saved around 50,000 Bulgarian Jews
A Bosnian Muslim family that saved a Jewish family during the Holocaust was later saved by the same Jewish family during the genocide in Bosnia
For nearly a century, Canada and Denmark have been locked in a bitter dispute – all because of a barren hunk of land in the icy Arctic channel near Greenland.