Yesterday, the National Park Service announced Pamela Smith has been named the new Chief of the United States Park Police (USPP), the nation’s oldest federal l...
In March 1971, a computer science whiz with an unlikely background was given six months to complete a seemingly impossible project for the United States Navy: ...
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One of the great things about writing this column is the fact that, from time to time, I get to talk with remarkable people about other remarkable people. ...
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It is August 25, 1940, and the Panamanian ship Bonita, sailing alone in war-torn waters with its cargo of clay bound for the United States, is suddenly attacke...
As Isabella Bird, in her seventieth year and in the middle of her last great adventure, sat across from Sultan at Marrakesh, telling him tales of her adve...