March 20, 1998 – Walnut Creek, California: John and Aileen Crowley were on top of the world. Thirty-year-old John had graduated from Georgetown University then received a Juris Doctor degree from Notre Dame Law School before earning an MBA from Harvard Business...
1964 – Ackerman, Mississippi: “No daughter of mine is going to parade herself around on stage in front of a bunch of strangers in a beauty contest. I will not support you, not now, not ever!” bellowed her father in a voice that could be heard all over the house....
June 1940 – Clarksville, Tennessee: Born pre-maturely, Wilma Rudolph weighed four pounds at birth. As a baby, she survived scarlet fever, then double pneumonia before being diagnosed with polio at age four. The doctor told Wilma’s mother, Blanche, the child would...
The 120 year old San Jose gold and copper mine twenty eight miles north of Copiapo, Chile, had been grumbling and groaning for several months, an audible warning of impending danger. Although management assured them everything was safe, the miners feared the mine’s...
The baby boy was born to a slave woman in a one-room shanty on the Moses Carver plantation about the time the Civil War was ending in 1865. The exact date and year of his birth are unknown. Moses Carver, a German immigrant farmer in Diamond Grove, Missouri, had...
In 1968, eighteen-year-old Philippe Petit was reading a magazine in a Paris dentist office when an article, a picture, and a dream captivated him. The article was about the construction of twin towers in lower Manhattan in New York City, that when completed would...
