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1958: Nathan Leopold, who was convicted with Richard Loeb of killing Bobby Franks in 1924, was released on parole. Other “crimes of the century” have come and gone, but the “perfect murder” of Bobby ...

In 1942, during the darkest days of World War II, Lieutenant Colonel Wendell Fertig refused to surrender after the fall of ...

If World War I was allegedly fought “to make the world safe for democracy,” World War II seems to have made the world “safe” for socialism, as socialist regimes ...

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Father Aloysius "Al" Schmitt sacrificed his life to save others aboard the USS Oklahoma at Pearl Harbor on December 7th, 1941, making him the first chaplain of any faith to die in World War II.

Underwater archaeologists have located a World War II B-17 in the Baltic Sea, and recovered artifacts may help identify the ...

Long before the famous Underground Railroad, those seeking freedom from slavery traveled on foot, by boat and under cover of darkness to Fort Mose in Spanish-controlled Florida ...

In the Lifetime TV movie, Eva Marcille plays a woman who falls 4,000 feet with a faulty parachute. In real life, people have survived free falls from even higher altitudes.