Three race car drivers who lost their lives to the sport they loved…
Thrill Seekers
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As a stock car driver and truck driver, the woman called “Lucky” always figured that she really was just that.
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After Gary Nixon was conked in the head by a teammate’s swinging bat while playing baseball, he decided he’d better find a safer sport. So he switched to drag racing.
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P.T. Barnum was many things – showman, philanthropist, abolitionist… and prankster.
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Dedicated Boy Scout leader J. Kenneth Tabb received Scouting’s highest honor for adult leadership.
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Bill Haast, a pioneer in extracting snake venom for research, was director of the Miami Serpentarium Laboratories until his death June 15, 2011, at age 100. (Yes, that’s right. 100…)
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On this day in 1906, explorer Robert Peary became the first European to visit the geographic North Pole. But few at the time knew it was his manservant Matthew Henson …
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Harry Houdini, born on this day in 1874, remains an inspiring and fascinating figure. Today we look at a few of the many fictional portrayals of him in film and …
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Ten years ago, in the final lap of the Daytona 500, Dale Earnhardt fatally crashed his famed No. 3 Monte Carlo. Today what look back on perhaps the greatest driver …
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We take a look back at the perilous early days of flight.