The shocking collapse of the Tacoma Narrows Bridge is of engineering's most famous disasters, and it changed the way engineers designed suspension bridges.
Ideas about human evolution that once seemed perfectly reasonable have been overturned, leaving us with a more complicated ancestry than scientists first imagined.
These inventors discovered an odd truth about innovation: sometimes your name has a much longer shelf life than the device that made it famous.
These people survived the impossible only to discover that the public wanted their stories long after they wanted their ordinary lives back. A few eventually embraced that attention, while others spent decades trying to separate themselves from the legends created around the worst moments they had ever experienced.
For generations, promoters turned anyone whose appearance could be marketed as unusual into profitable attractions surrounded by fabricated biographies and degrading stage identities. Behind those advertisements were real performers whose own voices were often buried beneath stories invented by the people collecting the admission money.
Anne Seymour knew what she wanted, and she knew it from the start. but as history has taught us so many times, the higher they climb, the harder they fall.
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