The 9/11 attacks resulted in thousands of deaths and unspeakable devastation. But among the people affected were several who demonstrated real-life heroism. Here are a few groups and individuals whose bravery and commitment to helping others was evident on September 11, 2001, and in the days that ...
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Robert Mugabe: The Complicated Legacy the African Leader Left Behind
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Robert Mugabe: The Complicated Legacy the African Leader Left Behind
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Robert Mugabe: The Complicated Legacy the African Leader Left Behind
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Inside Linda Ronstadt’s Courageous Battle Against Parkinson’s Disease
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Inside Linda Ronstadt’s Courageous Battle Against Parkinson’s Disease
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Inside Linda Ronstadt’s Courageous Battle Against Parkinson’s Disease
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Michael Jackson and Freddie Mercury: The Surprising Reason They Never Released Their Duets
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Michael Jackson and Freddie Mercury: The Surprising Reason They Never Released Their Duets
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Michael Jackson and Freddie Mercury: The Surprising Reason They Never Released Their Duets
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Why Lauren Bacall Considered Herself 'Lucky' to Have Married Humphrey Bogart
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Why Lauren Bacall Considered Herself 'Lucky' to Have Married Humphrey Bogart
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Why Lauren Bacall Considered Herself 'Lucky' to Have Married Humphrey Bogart
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The Brady Bunch: 8 Secrets and Scandals About TV's Squeaky-Clean Family
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Elizabeth Taylor Was 'Still Madly in Love' With Ex Richard Burton When He Died
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Inside Michael Jackson and Lisa Marie Presley's Head-Scratching Marriage
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New Kids on the Block: The Hurdles They Overcame Before Enjoying Pop Music Success
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How the BTK Killer Got His Name — and the Paper Trail He Left Behind
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How the Rat Pack Transformed Las Vegas into an Entertainment Destination
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The Monkees: How the Band Created for TV Conquered the Pop Charts
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The Monkees: How the Band Created for TV Conquered the Pop Charts
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Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid: The True Story of the Famous Outlaws
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Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid: The True Story of the Famous Outlaws
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Jack Perkins, 'Biography' Host, Dies at 85
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Jack Perkins, 'Biography' Host, Dies at 85
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How Prince Phillip's Life Was Upended When Elizabeth Became Queen
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How Prince Phillip's Life Was Upended When Elizabeth Became Queen
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Marilyn Monroe: Inside Her Final Days and Fragile State of Mind
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Marilyn Monroe: Inside Her Final Days and Fragile State of Mind
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The Bee Gees: How Three Small-Town Brothers Became Leaders of the 70s and 80s Music Scene
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The Bee Gees: How Three Small-Town Brothers Became Leaders of the 70s and 80s Music Scene
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Patrick Swayze: The Freak Injury That Nearly Derailed His Dancing Career
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Patrick Swayze: The Freak Injury That Nearly Derailed His Dancing Career
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Charlie Chaplin and 6 Other Artists Who Were Blacklisted in Hollywood During the Red Scare
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Charlie Chaplin and 6 Other Artists Who Were Blacklisted in Hollywood During the Red Scare
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Freddie Mercury Was Part of Brian May and Roger Taylor's Entourage Before Forming Queen
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Freddie Mercury Was Part of Brian May and Roger Taylor's Entourage Before Forming Queen
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How The Beatles Got Together and Became the Best-Selling Band of All Time
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How The Beatles Got Together and Became the Best-Selling Band of All Time
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Who Was Rudy Ray Moore, the Godfather of Rap?
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Who Was Rudy Ray Moore, the Godfather of Rap?
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12 Notable Members of the Kennedy Family
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12 Notable Members of the Kennedy Family
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Jackie Robinson and 10 Other African American Pioneers in Sports
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Jackie Robinson and 10 Other African American Pioneers in Sports
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Antony and Cleopatra's Legendary Love Story
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Antony and Cleopatra's Legendary Love Story
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The Kooky Symbolism on the Beatles’ 'Abbey Road' Album Cover
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The Kooky Symbolism on the Beatles’ 'Abbey Road' Album Cover
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Sonia Sotomayor and 9 Other Latina Pioneers of the 19th, 20th and 21st Centuries
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Sonia Sotomayor and 9 Other Latina Pioneers of the 19th, 20th and 21st Centuries
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Lewis and Clark: How the Explorers' Corps of Discovery Transformed North America
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Lewis and Clark: How the Explorers' Corps of Discovery Transformed North America
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Oprah Winfrey Once Described Longtime Friend Toni Morrison as 'Our Conscience'
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Oprah Winfrey Once Described Longtime Friend Toni Morrison as 'Our Conscience'
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Charles Manson's Family Reveals They Were 'Not Surprised' After Learning He Was the Mastermind Behind the 1969 Murders
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Charles Manson's Family Reveals They Were 'Not Surprised' After Learning He Was the Mastermind Behind the 1969 Murders
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Molly Brown and 11 Other Famous Titanic Passengers
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Molly Brown and 11 Other Famous Titanic Passengers
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Orville and Wilbur Wright: The Brothers Who Changed Aviation
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Orville and Wilbur Wright: The Brothers Who Changed Aviation
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James Bond: The Actors Who've Played the Spy
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James Bond: The Actors Who've Played the Spy
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Michael Jackson: Inside His Early Years in Gary, Indiana With His Musical Family
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Michael Jackson: Inside His Early Years in Gary, Indiana With His Musical Family
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Elvis Felt Pressured to Marry Priscilla and 'Trained' Her to Become His Perfect Wife
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Elvis Felt Pressured to Marry Priscilla and 'Trained' Her to Become His Perfect Wife
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George Lucas: The Car Wreck That Changed His Life and Led Him to 'Star Wars'
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George Lucas: The Car Wreck That Changed His Life and Led Him to 'Star Wars'
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Inside Ted Bundy's Troubled and Disturbing Childhood
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Inside Ted Bundy's Troubled and Disturbing Childhood
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How Henry VIII’s Failing Health Affected His Life and Reign
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How Henry VIII’s Failing Health Affected His Life and Reign
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Inside Alex Trebek’s Courageous Battle Against Stage 4 Pancreatic Cancer
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Caravaggio: The Italian Painter Was Also a Notorious Criminal and Murderer
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Perhaps it was Nelson Mandela who captured it best: "The trouble with Mugabe is that he was the star — and then the sun came up.” Robert Mugabe, founding prime minister and then president of Zimbabwe, was initially hailed as a human rights freedom fighter who helped lead the country, formerly known ...
Linda Ronstadt's voice was seemingly a gift from the angels above. It was one that enabled her to belt out country-rockers like "Heat Wave" and yearning ballads like "Blue Bayou" with equal conviction, making her a top-selling female artist of the 1970s. It was also an instrument that provided the ...
One was the engagingly versatile frontman of one of the greatest rock bands of all time. The other became known as the King of Pop, releasing one of the best-selling albums in history. And together, they had plans to work together on a project that had the potential to become the ultimate ...
Film stars Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall shared an iconic romance and a happy, albeit short-lived, marriage. They achieved this despite a 25-year age difference, a track record of failed marriages on his part, and her decision to put her career on hold in order to focus on their relationship. ...
On television, they were the epitome of the wholesome family. Even when the blended clan of six children that made up the majority of The Brady Bunch did something wrong, it resulted in teachable lessons often delivered by squeaky-clean, caring parents Carol and Mike. Like many of Hollywood’s ...
Romance blossomed between Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton on the set of Cleopatra in 1962. Their tumultuous relationship was built on irresistible chemistry, vicious fights, a luxurious lifestyle and awe-inspiring gifts. Even when they were the subject of controversy, they fascinated the public ...
The announcement seemed to come out of thin air. On August 1, 1994, a statement was sent to the media, reading: “My married name is Mrs. Lisa Marie Presley-Jackson. My marriage to Michael Jackson took place in a private ceremony outside the United States weeks ago. I am very much in love with ...
In the late 1980s and early '90s, New Kids on the Block sold millions of albums, had their faces on products from notebooks and lunch boxes to sleeping bags and welcomed countless adoring fans to their concerts. Yet they started out as a group of kids from rougher parts of Boston who had no ...
No one knows how long it had been hidden there. A seemingly innocent piece of paper caught between pages of an engineering textbook at the Wichita Public Library. But the words typed on there were the start of a cat-and-mouse hunt of the self-dubbed BTK Killer, Dennis Rader. On the surface, Rader ...
They were the toast of Hollywood, a group of actors who came together at the Los Angeles home of silver-screen stars Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall. But their effect on the popular culture would extend beyond California’s sunny climes and help put the then fairly modest resort and gambling ...
A fictional TV quartet seemingly created to take advantage of Beatlemania, The Monkees took flight from their manufactured beginnings to become a legitimate band and one of the top-selling acts in the history of popular music. As detailed in The Monkees: The Day-By-Day Story of the '60s TV Pop ...
It’s one of the most famous endings in film history. In the 1969 movie Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, the two outlaws, played by Paul Newman and Robert Redford respectively, appear to go out in a blaze of glory during a gun battle in Bolivia in 1908. But the film’s ambiguous ending points to a ...
Known for his understated on-air presence, former newsman and cable TV host Jack Perkins died at his home in Casey Key, Florida on August 19, 2019, at the age of 85. He had Parkinson's disease. Perkins began his longstanding journalism career at NBC News, serving as a reporter, correspondent and ...
Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Philip, who have been married for more than 70 years, can boast of the longest-enduring marriage in British royal history. Their love story, which first began when a 13-year-old Elizabeth developed a crush on her older third cousin, has lasted through Elizabeth's ...
In some ways, it seemed in August 1962, Marilyn Monroe was trying to pull her life together. She had just bought her first house in California’s Brentwood neighborhood for $75,000, she was on the cover of Life magazine and she had just been rehired on the film Something’s Got to Give. But in other ...
While most famous bands can trace their formation through collaborations and breakups with other acts, the three brothers who comprised the Bee Gees found their place in music history through the process of growing up in the same home together. The oldest, Barry Gibb, was born on September 1, 1946, ...
Patrick Swayze may have had the time of his life on the dance floor — but the path that led him there wasn’t always filled with such stunning lifts. He went on to make a permanent mark in dance history in 1987’s romantic drama film Dirty Dancing with Jennifer Grey, before taking ...
“Are you now or have you ever been a member of the Communist Party?” was the $64,000 question asked by the notorious House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC) in the U.S. House of Representatives. Between the late 1940s and 1950s, the Second Red Scare was an era marked by great fear that ...
While mention of Queen usually conjures up images of its legendary frontman, Freddie Mercury, the band was actually the musical creation of guitarist Brian May, many years before the Mercury wowed the world with his three-octave vocal range. Raised in the Feltham, Middlesex, section of London, ...
Before John, Paul, George and Ringo became The Beatles, they were simply four teenagers from Liverpool. Never could John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison and Ringo Starr have imagined they would go on to form one of the most successful groups in modern history, influencing the ...
Rudy Ray Moore was born to entertain — and to push the envelope. He began his career in music before he pioneered a new raunchier style of standup comedy that was often deemed too much for Hollywood. Eventually, he became a film star, known for shaking up the underground film industry with his 1975 ...
With their wealth and power, the Kennedys have been touted as the closest thing to royalty in America. Having left their homeland of Ireland in the 1840s to escape the potato famine, the Kennedys — starting with Boston-born Patrick Joseph "P.J." Kennedy (1858-1929) — built their future from the ...
Despite the severe racial, social and economic barriers that African American athletes have been subjected to throughout history, there have been notable individuals who have risen above the challenges and shattered all expectations. Not only did these athletes achieve "firsts" in their sport, but ...
It is an ending so epic that Shakespeare himself couldn’t better it. In the golden city of Alexandria, Cleopatra VII (69-30 BC), Queen of Egypt, holes up in her self-made mausoleum, as her arch-nemesis Octavian (later known as Augustus), Emperor of Rome, closes in. But she is not alone. In her arms ...
Ask your friends to name the biggest hoax of 1969 and you might hear the "Paul Is Dead" rumor. For much of the late 1960s, hearsay about the Beatles had been building up until the strange meme hit newspapers everywhere: that Paul McCartney fatally crashed his Aston Martin in 1966 and for years had ...
Whether it be in politics, science, medicine or the arts, Latinas have defied social, cultural, and gender stereotypes throughout many generations and have become pioneers in their respective fields and native countries. In honor of these brave, daring, and at times controversial women, here are ...
It was the greatest explorative expedition the young United States of America had ever known. On May 14, 1804, co-commanders Meriwether Lewis and William Clark set out from Camp Dubois, outside of St. Louis, Missouri, with a group of hearty, eager explorers. Dubbed the “Corps of Discovery” by ...
Oprah Winfrey was frustrated. She needed to get in touch with the woman whose words had tugged at her heartstrings. Winfrey looked through the phone book, but her number was unlisted. She was so desperate, she called the local fire department to see if they could help her find the number. The ...
On August 9, 1969, members of the Manson Family, under orders from their leader Charles Manson, committed one of the most terrifying crimes in American history when they broke into the Los Angeles home of pregnant actress Sharon Tate and savagely murdered her and four of her houseguests. While much ...
Sailing from the docks of Southampton, England, the British passenger ocean liner the RMS Titanic set out on her maiden voyage on April 10, 1912, headed for New York City. Operated by the shipping company White Star Line and commandeered by Captain Edward John Smith, the ship, which was carrying ...
It was 12 seconds that would change the world forever. On the cold, windy morning of December 17, 1903, on the sandy dunes of Kitty Hawk, North Carolina, a small handful of men gathered around a homemade mechanical contraption of wood and fabric. They were there to witness the culmination of years ...
When author Ian Fleming began writing his first novel, Casino Royale, in 1952 about a fictional British spy agent named James Bond, he could hardly have foreseen the pop culture and media juggernaut that his character would come to be. While Bond has been depicted in Fleming's novels, as well as ...
Accepting the Grammy Legend Award in 1993, pop superstar Michael Jackson said the following: “My childhood was taken away from me. There was no Christmas, there were no birthdays, it was not a normal childhood, nor the normal pleasures of childhood. Those were exchanged for hard work, struggle and ...
Elvis Presley and Priscilla Beaulieu Presley first met when he was 24 and she was 14. Their age difference wasn’t a problem for Elvis, who thought he could mold Priscilla into his ideal woman. Going along with how Elvis wanted to shape her was at first acceptable to Priscilla. But as she grew older ...
Before he captured audiences with his tales of the Force and fully operational Death Stars, George Lucas lived, breathed and dreamed about one subject for the majority of his teenage years: cars. He loved cars. He loved the thrill of acceleration, the freedom of traveling, the nightly ritual of ...
According to Ted Bundy, he had an uneventful childhood. His friends and family often backed up this claim. But a closer look reveals he was a socially awkward child who sometimes crossed the lines of propriety, morality and legality. Though the suspect behavior exhibited by a young Bundy has been ...
Henry VIII ruled for 37 years, a period that saw him establish England on the world stage. But his reign was also marked by tumult, including his break with the Catholic Church, drastic changes to English religious and political life, profligate spending and an exceedingly troubled personal life ...
When Alex Trebek announced that he had stage 4 pancreatic cancer in March 2019, he didn’t miss a day of work despite battling the frequently brutal effects of chemotherapy. (Since Jeopardy! began in 1984, Trebek has hosted nearly 8,000 episodes.) “I plan to beat the low survival rate statistics for ...
The Baroque artist Caravaggio is famous for gruesome paintings like “Judith Beheading Holofernes." Yet it wasn’t only his paintings that were brutal and violent. In the early 17th century, Caravaggio went to trial at least 11 times for things like writing libelous poems, throwing a plate of ...