Coya Knutson won a seat in the U.S. House in 1954 but was undone by a secret she brought to Washington
It has become a great legend of World War I. But what really happened when British and German troops emerged from their trenches that Christmas Day?
John Harlan championed racial justice on a hostile Supreme Court. Robert Harlan, a freed slave, achieved renown despite the court's decisions
At the height of the sailing era, four of the world's fastest clippers raced home with the season's precious early cargo of tea
As a young man, Paul Morphy vanquished eight opponents simultaneously while effectively blindfolded
She was young, married and a mother. But after her husband died in battle against the Nazis, she became a secret agent for the British
For six years, an elderly tramp toured the U.S., paying those who helped him with checks for sums of up to $900,000
Robin "Tin Eye" Stephens became known for "breaking" captured German spies without laying a hand on them
The first case of stigmata—the appearance of marks or actual wounds like those Christ received during the Crucifixion—was recorded in 1224
Amid the vast literature of the Civil War, it's easy to lose sight of some of the stranger facts, coincidences and quirks of character
Explosion on Black Tom Island packed the force of an earthquake. It took investigators years to determine that operatives working for Germany were to blame
Henry Johnson suffered 21 wounds and rescued a soldier while repelling an enemy raid in the Argonne Forest in 1918 but died 11 years later a forgotten man
While Great Britain and the Ottoman Empire were fighting World War I, two Afghans opened up a second front in an Australian outback town 12,000 miles away
Charles Blondin understood the appeal of the morbid to the masses, and reveled when gamblers took bets on whether he would plunge to a watery death
In 1782, an unknown French engineer offered an invention better than radar: the ability to detect ships hundreds of miles away
The inventors' battle over the delivery of electricity was an epic power play
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