In 1887, a group of men in a small Kansas town hatched a plan to publicly humiliate local women and stop them from interfering in politics.

A twenty-year-old Navy sailor vanished into the Gulf of Tonkin, only to become a highly successful covert operative inside North Vietnam’s most notorious prison.

On April 4, 1943, the Lady Be Good, a B-24D Liberator, took off from Soluch Field in Libya. Its crew of nine had only been in the country for a week.

In 1907, families across America desperately sought a slot at the Trenton Psychiatric Hospital.

In the summer of 1974, the Buffalo Sabres drafted a highly touted 20-year-old forward from Japan, triggering widespread media interest in a groundbreaking international athlete who was practically a ghost.

In August 1914, Sir Ernest Shackleton launched the Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition with a singular goal: to make the first land crossing of the Antarctic continent.

In December 1970, Elvis Presley boarded a flight to Washington, D.C. with a highly specific mission.

Everyone knows the term. It describes a sarcastic person who is too clever for their own good.

Imagine two paralyzed royal princes, adrift on a wooden raft down the Seine River, their leg tendons intentionally burned by their own parents.

In June 2010, the grass courts of Wimbledon hosted a first-round men’s singles match between American John Isner and French qualifier Nicolas Mahut.