Stories

In October 1942, Eddie Rickenbacker was on a wartime mission when his B-17 bomber missed a tiny island stop and…

Mary Kay Letourneau was a Washington state schoolteacher whose sexual relationship with a 12-year-old student led to a prison sentence,…

Warren Buffett is one of the most well-known investors in the world, but one of the stories most often told…

Ronald James Read was born October 23, 1921, in Dummerston, Vermont, into a poor farming family [1]. He walked or…

Sylvia Bloom worked as a legal secretary at the Wall Street law firm Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton for 67…

Stories about teachers, secretaries, and other ordinary workers quietly becoming millionaires are often repeated online with names and details that…

A video showing a Black American woman travelling to Cambodia and purchasing what she describes as “raw hair extensions” directly…

Mary Anning searched the dangerous cliffs around Lyme Regis for fossils and uncovered some of the most important marine-reptile specimens…

On October 27, 1962, the Soviet submarine B-59 was being pursued by U.S. anti-submarine forces near Cuba while carrying a…

In 1887, reporter Nellie Bly deliberately feigned mental illness so that she could be committed to the asylum on Blackwell’s…