After the 1912 presidential election, Woodrow Wilson made a trip to visit an aged aunt whom he hadn’t seen in a long time.

The famous author Robert Louis Stevenson tells of a storm that caught a ship off a rocky coast and threatened to drive the ship into the rocks, which would mean certain destruction.

While studying in the Holy Land, a seminary professor met a man who claimed to have memorized the entire Old Testament in Hebrew.

In 1915, a Russian Armenian Christian was reading his Bible when he was beheaded for his faith

The renowned Quaker philosopher Rufus Jones was once speaking to a crowd about the importance of having a radiant countenance.

In 1980, Les Henson was a 6-foot, 6-inch forward on the Virginia Tech basketball team.

In the 1950s, there was a very famous racecar driver by the name of Bill Vukovich who won the Indianapolis 500 in 1953 and 1954.

Over a century ago, a bishop in the United Brethren Church named Milton Wright pronounced from his pulpit and in a publication he edited that human flight was both impossible and contrary to the will of God.

A story is told of a woman who fell out of a second floor window and landed in a slow moving garbage truck.

Many years ago there was a terrible railroad accident in the Eastern U.S. that claimed many lives and caused even more terrible injuries.