Documented stories gathered around a shared theme.
Roald Amundsen conquered the South Pole and disappeared in 1928 while trying to rescue his rival Umberto Nobile.
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Marie Curie brought mobile X-ray equipment to hospitals near the front during the First World War.
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Photograph 51 revealed the hidden architecture of life, but Rosalind Franklin’s scientific legacy extended far beyond DNA.
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The young empress who conquered Europe abandoned a reliable formula, rebuilt her career in France, and turned her own name into an instrument of protest.
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In 1973 he refused the Oscar for The Godfather and transformed the greatest recognition of his career into a protest against Hollywood.
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Only one of his three starring films had opened when he died. The next two expanded his legend.
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In 1955 she left Hollywood, formed her own production company, and forced Fox to renegotiate her terms.
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Louis Leplée’s unsolved murder connected Édith Piaf to the Paris underworld and nearly destroyed her emerging career.
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In 1965, a secret Francoist police report acknowledged how Federico García Lorca had been arrested, shot, and secretly buried.
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In 1844, Edgar Allan Poe made New York believe a balloon had crossed the Atlantic in seventy-five hours.
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