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Wikimedia CommonsLauri Trni (later Larry Thorne) poses in his SS uniform in 1941. In Section 60 at Arlington National Cemetery among the thousands of rows of white granite headstones for American soldiers killed in action stands a marker bearing the names of four servicemen killed in Vietnam. At first glance, theres nothing remarkable about the

Russia Beyond Skoptsys ability to unite the isolated masses of Russia made the sect stick, and surviving long after the death of its founding fathers. In their devout faith, followers of Tsarist Russias Skoptsy sect could be compared to Orthodox Christians. They both believed in saints and sinners, heaven and hell, and that Jesus Christ

Joe Rosenthal/National ArchivesOn Feb. 23, 1945, Marines raised the U.S. flag on Iwo Jima in an iconic moment captured by photographer Joe Rosenthal. When photographer Joe Rosenthal snapped a picture of U.S. Marines raising the flag on Iwo Jima, he didnt yet know that the photo would become one of the most iconic images in

In 1921, Bessie Coleman became the first Black woman in America to be awarded a pilots license. Colemans journey to the cockpit, however, was no breeze. Based on her gender and color, Coleman was denied admission to all the aviation schools she applied to in the United States. To achieve her dream she saved money,

Wikimedia Commons/YoutubeHannelore Schmatz was the fourth woman to summit Mount Everest, and the first woman to die there. German mountaineer Hannelore Schmatz loved to climb. In 1979, accompanied by her husband, Gerhard, Schmatz embarked on their most ambitious expedition yet: to summit Mount Everest.