Helene Mayer, born in 1910 in Offenbach am Main, Germany, was a fencing prodigy.

An Unlikely UnionIn the early 1990s, Sarajevo, a city celebrated for its cultural diversity, became a symbol of the senseless brutality of war.

In the waning years of the 18th century, a curious figure emerged from the forests of Aveyron in France. A boy, estimated to be around 12 years old, was found wandering the woods, naked and mute.

On a chilly January 30, 1835, Richard Lawrence, an English-born house painter, positioned himself near the United States Capitol.

In the frosty skies over Saint-Nazaire, France, on January 3, 1943, Staff Sergeant Alan Magee, a ball turret gunner aboard a B-17 Flying Fortress, found himself in a harrowing situation.

At the dawn of the 20th century, Louis Brennan, an Irish-born inventor, embarked on an audacious project that seemed to defy gravity.

In the 18th and early 19th centuries, the sanctity of graves within European and American cemeteries faced an eerie threat: body snatchers.

From the 16th to the 18th century, Fuchsprellen was a hunting pleasure at the courts of Europe.

Frank “Rocky” Fiegel was born in 1868 in Poland and later immigrated to the United States, settling in the town of Chester, Illinois.

Frank Hayes, a 35-year-old jockey, would become a legend in the most unusual and tragic way at Belmont Park on June 4, 1923.