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When Douglas Corrigan climbed out of his weather-beaten Curtiss Robin at Baldonnel Airfield near Dublin on 18 July 1938, he claimed to have ...

In July 1952, reports of a railway disaster in Poland began circulating in the Western media. According to these reports, a Soviet military ...

During the early 1860s, reports of violent robberies known as garrottings filled British newspapers. Victims were said to be attacked from b...

On June 21, 1913, a tiny woman weighing barely 80 pounds climbed into an airplane over Los Angeles and prepared to do something no woman had...

On the morning of April 16, 1947, residents of Texas City, a busy industrial port on the Gulf Coast of Texas, watched smoke rise from a carg...

Milo of Croton was the strongest man in the ancient Greek world, or so the stories say. A six-time Olympic champion, military hero, and larg...

Underneath the narrow streets, churches, and palaces of the Italian city of Siena lies a sprawling network of underground aqueducts that sup...

For nearly seven decades, one of the most feared men in Rome lived an otherwise ordinary life. He sold umbrellas, attended church, and walke...

More than a century before Albert Einstein revolutionized physics with his theory of general relativity, and nearly two centuries before ast...

It appears that quite a few people have been killed or brought to justice for having failed to deliver on their promise of turning ordinary ...