A mine collapse left 33 miners trapped a half-mile below the surface in an underground shelter. It would take an international team of rescuers 69 days to save them. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Centenarian Runs Marathon
Doctors said Fauja Singh may never walk. So they’d be pretty surprised to learn that he became the first 100-year-old to run a marathon, and the oldest known person to run a marathon. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Allied journalists parachute into France and land on the beaches with the invasion force. Legendary reporter Martha Gellhorn stows away on a ship, determined to beat her estranged husband, Ernest Hemingway, to the D-Day scoop. And a homing pigeon known as Gustav brings the first ...Show more
Allied journalists parachute into France and land on the beaches with the invasion force. Legendary reporter Martha Gellhorn stows away on a ship, determined to beat her estranged husband, Ernest Hemingway, to the D-Day scoop. And a homing pigeon known as Gustav brings the first ...Show more
"America's first female cryptanalyst" only hints at the contributions of this codebreaking war hero. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices