In 1859 London, doctors were baffled. Healthy young men were arriving at hospitals with burning thighs, blistered skin, and raw, peeling...

In the 1920s, a college student named Theodor Geisel was studying at Dartmouth, where he became editor of the school’s humor magazine....

Deep in the fiery, cramped boiler rooms of massive ocean liners, where the heat was unbearable and escape nearly impossible, worked...

In 1978, in the quiet town of Leeds, England, no one suspected a humble rented house hid the entrance to a daring bank robbery. For three...

On March 24, 1944, Flight Sergeant Nicholas Stephen Alkemade, a rear gunner aboard a Lancaster bomber, was returning from a bombing...

In 2006, a Japanese trader at Mizuho Securities meant to sell one share of a job recruitment company for 610,000 yen (about $5,000 USD)....

The job was super-clean. In 2008, thieves cut through the roof of a Waltham, Massachusetts jewelry store. No alarms tripped. No prints....

In 1953, an enterprising door-to-door salesman named Joe Girard began selling Chevrolets at a small dealership in Detroit. He wasn’t just...

In 1969, just seconds after liftoff, Apollo 12, NASA’s second moon-landing mission, was struck by lightning – twice. Alarms blared. The...