Young Dick Fosbury began the high jump like every other jumper, throwing one leg over, then the other. After a mediocre finish in a track meet, he looked at the physics of...
In 1984, Michael Carter won an Olympic medal and a Super Bowl ring with the San Francisco 49ers.
Video of Ryder Williams saving a ten-year-old boy from towering waves in California has gone viral. Ryder says it’s all part of the job.
LOS ANGELES, Calif.—Hillary Cohen, a TV show and film assistant director, started an on-set food distribution program to ensure that surplus food would be donated to nearby food banks.
How education, supportive parents and an insatiable curiosity drove Thessalonika Arzu-Embry to earn her PhD at age 17.
FREEHOLD, N.J.—At age 11, when Giuliana Demma would visit her baby cousin at the Children’s Hospital, she conceived an idea to give the drab hospital gowns a more kid-friendly touch.
Wilma Rudolph suffered from Polio at age four and was told she would never be able to run. She became the first American woman to win three gold medals in a single...
SANTA CRUZ, Calif.—A woman combined her social work and volunteer experience to create a program that would help shelter animals and at-risk youth in her community.
In the absence of clear battlefield communications, signal corps used carrier pigeons to deliver critical information to commanders. 100,000 of these fine-feathered heroes served in WWl.