- TRAGEDY AT VIRGINIA TECH
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- Beethoven's Hair: With modern technology, scientists conducted tests on a lock of Beethoven's hair. Those strands revealed he had lead poisoning.
- Crop Circles: Real or Hoax?
- Daniel Boone: The legendary woodsman stood trial for treason against the United States in 1778
- (The) Great Fire: Massive destruction in Chicago, Peshtigo, and Holland
- Galveston: The Great Storm of 1900
- Hindenburg: While landing, the great Zeppelin burst into flames and was completely destroyed in less than a minute
- K2: Dangerous Mountain Climbing
- Leopold & Loeb: Killing just to see if they could "get away with it," Nathan Leopold and Richard Loeb avoided the death sentence due to skillful strategy and arguments by their lawyer, Clarence Darrow.
- Lusitania: Struck, and sunk, by a German torpedo
- Osama bin Laden: The First Battle with Bin Laden was in Somalia
- "Perfect Storm" - The Monster Storm of 1991
- Radiation Sickness aboard a Soviet nuclear submarine
- Rick Rescorla: Hero of September 11
- Seabiscuit: A Horse Rallies Post-Depression America
- Tenerife: The deadliest unintentional air crash
- Titanic: Sinking of the great liner on her maiden voyage, including a picture of the actual iceberg