Eddie Rickenbacker’s life was a uniquely American story of auto racing achievement before conquering the skies over Europe.
After Buffalo Bill Cody was dead and buried, a bizarre feud erupted over his remains, with one town offering to reward grave robbery.
The downfall of Nero in June of AD 68 set off a struggle in Rome that saw four emperors in the span of a year.
Ambrose Bierce was a major American writer whose disappearance in Mexico in 1913 is one of history's most enduring head-scratchers.
The attempt to dig a canal through Panama was led by French diplomat and builder Ferdinand de Lesseps, who had earlier triumphed with the Suez Canal. Though the project had a promising start soon turned into one of history’s biggest engineering failures.
At just fourteen, Thomas Nickerson was the youngest crewmember of the whaleship Essex. When the ship was struck and sunk by a whale, he was launched into one of the most grueling sagas of survival in maritime history.
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