Search Results
During World War II, Iwo Jima, a tiny island 660 miles from Tokyo, was defended by 21,000 Japanese soldiers determined to fight to the death. The U.S. campaign, which began on February 19, 1945, was expected to last only a few days. Instead it claimed the lives of nearly 7,000 Ma...
The night after the fourth of July, Layton Carlson Jr., of Red Wing, Minnesota, finally got lucky. And unlucky. He'd picked the perfect spot to lose his virginity to his girlfriend, an abandoned farmyard in the middle of cornfields: nice, private, and quiet. The only problem was,...
For the first time in the two hundred years since Lewis and Clark led their expedition from St. Louis to the Pacific, we hear the other side of the story--as we listen to nine descendants of the Indians whose homelands were traversed. Among those who speak: Newspaper editor Mark ...
"Lessons from A Wall Street Legend Turned Secretary of Commerce Before being named President Trump's Secretary of Commerce in 2017, Wilbur Ross had already earned a reputation as the "King of Bankruptcy" over his 55-year career on Wall Street. Often working on high-profile bankru...
The "greatest voice of the century,' she sang at the request of royalty, heads of state & presidents. Born into poverty in 1911, Mahalia Jackson's throaty, fervent, rich and distinctive New Orleans-tinged contralto took her from Louisiana's Plymouth Rock Baptist Church choir (per...
Ocean's 11: New Year's Eve in Las Vegas. Roulette wheels spin and the champaign fizzes. It's the perfect time to steal a kiss or a $25 chip. But for Danny Ocean and his 10 partners in crime, it's the perfect moment to steal millions. Danny devises a scheme to knock out power to t...
A lot has happened to astronaut John Crichton since he got shot through a wormhole to, well, somewhere else. He's made friends with a crew of weird alien ex-cons onboard a living ship called Moya, but Crichton's made more enemies than friends in the Uncharted Territories. Powerfu...