This is a story about an underdog fighting against the odds. Faraday wanted to be a scientist but to be able to even live his dream he had to break into a closed society that viewed him as...

Lizzie Borden took an axe

And gave her father forty whacks

And when she saw what she had done

She gave her mother forty-one

During the World War II, the big question was when and where the liberation of Europe would begin. Today in 1944 the landings began. It was a huge operation that included multiple countries and...

It was during the great depression that the infamous Bonnie and Clyde drove through Texas and as far north as Iowa, robbing, kidnapping, and sometimes murdering to evade arrest. There are...

Sometimes truth really is stranger than fiction.  Take the case of Michael Finkel, a journalist who used to write for the New York Times Magazine.  He had just gotten in big trouble after it was...