As a boy, Israel Baline had to work after school to help his poor immigrant family. He sold newsp...

The smallest Scandinavian country, Denmark was once home to Vikings who used the country's abunda...

Ever since he was a boy, John Brown had hated slavery. He was an abolitionist, a person who be...

Early in her life, doctors told Wilma Rudolph she would never walk. She had a disease called p...

Albania maintains a distinct national identity despite a violent history of many different ruling...

From the time she was a young child, Willa Cather had a gift with words and she loved stories. As...

When Jules Verne was born in 1828, his family had his future planned out for him. They expected h...

Daniel Boone loved to explore and hunt in the wilderness. As a boy, he learned the ways of the wo...

Nicknamed the 'World’s Fastest Human,' Jesse Owens grew up in a poor farming community. A sick...

In 1971, D.B. Cooper jumped out of an airplane with $200,000 in ransom money. Today, the hijackin...

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