Long before he occupied the Oval Office, the sixteenth President of the United States spent his time tinkering with mechanics and riverboats.

In 1985, the former lead singer of Creedence Clearwater Revival faced an unusual legal battle. A music label sued him for sounding too much like himself.

In the chaotic days following September 11, 2001, American radio stations underwent a sudden, sweeping shift in their daily broadcasting.

On the morning of September 11, two United States Air Force pilots climbed into the cockpits of their F-16 fighter jets with a clear objective.

Deep in the Buenos Aires Province of Argentina, a bustling lakeside resort town spent a quarter-century completely hidden beneath ten meters of corrosive saltwater.

In July 1934, a man with a fake noble title walked into the government offices of a small European nation and made an outrageous offer.

A major league sports team decided to sell practically free alcohol to an already angry crowd.

At the height of the Second Industrial Revolution, a leading German candy company gave consumers a glimpse into the distant future.

On August 29, 1911, a starving, soot-covered man walked out of the California wilderness and into the town of Oroville.

When an 81-year-old amateur artist tried to fix a flaking Spanish church painting, the result looked more like a hairy primate than Jesus Christ.