Understanding human anatomy, and how to diagnose and treat illnesses, has changed dramatically from ancient to modern times. This collection features people whose medical breakthroughs helped to save millions of lives.
At the age of nineteen months, Helen Keller survives severe illness but loses her hearing and sight.
In an art studio in Paris, Anna and her team create masks that enable wounded soldiers to resume their civilian lives.
Her training in classical art and sculpting gave Anna the tools she needed to give wounded soldiers hope and new life.
As a classical sculptor, Anna used her training and artistic sense to create life-like masks for soldiers who had been disfigured in the Great War.
After WWI ended, Anna Coleman Ladd returned to the United States and resumed her career as a sculptor.
On March 3, 1887, Helen Keller's life changed. Anne Sullivan, a teacher in the art of "finger spelling," agrees to help the Keller family. Perhaps the...
Guiteau shoots the President twice, resulting in a back wound that later becomes infected and kills Garfield.
Mabalo Lokela, a teacher living in a remote part of Zaire (today's Republic of Congo), is the "index patient" for a new disease which will be called E...
When word about Pasteur's vaccine spreads, a teenaged hero who saved the lives of six young shepherds needs the vaccine. He arrives from Arbois, Paste...
People cause 95% of all avalanche accidents; the average avalanche travels around 80 mph.
The U.S. creates an ad campaignurging people to stay in their cities and fight, in case an enemy drops a nuclear bomb.
Although Antwone Fisher is not a juvenile delinquent, he spends time in the George Junior Republic reform school in Grove City, Pennsylvania.
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