If it floated, it was needed. Half a million New Yorkers were rescued by a Coast Guard-led fleet of tugboats and yachts. When disaster strikes...
Heroes
Valentina Tereshkova, call name “Seagull” and the first woman in space, flew solo for 71 hours and...
Prisons are not designed to be pleasant places. They are harsh, cruel, unforgiving. They can be deadly...
Some people might shrug it off as a fad; others take the path of self-righteousness and judgment. But...
Before there were bicoastal battles over rap styles or international incidents about comma use, there...
Ellis Island, the busiest immigrant inspection gateway in the U.S. for over 60 years, opened the doors...
Let’s be honest: we take science and technology for granted. Just be glad that these women didn’t...
As far as holiday airport mayhem goes, chances are the 92 occupants (86 passengers and 6 crew) of the...
This may come as a shock to some, but it shouldn’t: History, and science, is not the domain of white men...
In the Marvel cinematic universe, Captain America spends 67 years trapped in glacier ice after the end...
There’s a tiny little island waaaay up north, between Canada and Greenland that’s creating a big...
Can we give some credit where credit is definitely due? There’s good reason for everyone to celebrate...
Standing united for a common goal; it’s a basic concept that formed the foundation of some of the...
During the hardships of the Great Depression Kentucky went the extra mile on horseback to make sure...
One man and his ultralight plane are helping to show orphaned birds how to migrate while giving people a...
Here’s our picks for INSH's Top 20 Interesting People of 2017, along with their underknown and amazing...
100 years ago a deadly explosion lead to a Christmas tradition between the cities of Boston and Halifax...
Major sporting events always have a spotlight on them, which is why they're prime locations for anyone...
Pilots N Paws is doing whatever it can to help out stray dogs in shelters across America with a lot of...
When one man decided he'd had enough living life as a slave, he hatched a daring escape so he and his...
Part conservation effort, part labor of love, Jadav Payeng has single-handedly reforested a small inland...
A hero can come in many shapes and sizes, but as we like to point out sometimes they can also be covered...
You know their creations, but these inventors aren't proud of their handiwork.
The Women Airforce Service Pilots (or WASPs) of World War II were the Rosie the Riveters of the sky for...
Wrapped up in all the negativity that's on the news right now? Here's a friendly reminder of the awesome...
AIDS took no prisoners. It continues to be an unforgiving and heartless condition; stealing the lives of...
When their owners, and their city, needed them, these dogs proved themselves incredibly heroic, helping...
For 47-year-old Annette Fredskov, when a 2010 Multiple Sclerosis diagnosis was given to her she decided...
You usually don’t hear the words ‘kung fu’ and ‘nuns’ in the same sentence, but it’s an unlikely...
Terry Fox's Marathon of Hope began with the dipping of his artificial leg in the Atlantic Ocean on April...
