How Abraham Lincoln Narrowly Avoided Death Before His Assassination
Abraham Lincoln was famously assassinated at a theater, but he actually had a brush with death prior to that during the Civil War, when a bullet nearly hit him.
Read MoreAbraham Lincoln was famously assassinated at a theater, but he actually had a brush with death prior to that during the Civil War, when a bullet nearly hit him.
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Read MoreThe entire Robison family was murdered in their vacation cabin in Michigan in 1968.
Read MoreThe last debutantes curtseyed before the Queen in 1958. Here are some of their fascinating stories as the last participants in a 2-century-old tradition.
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