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Corporal Wojtek: The Beer-Drinking, Cigarette-Eating, Ammunition-Carrying Bear of World War II
It is often said that war brings out the best and worst in humanity. But in the case of Corporal Wojtek, it also brought out the best in...


My Good Friend Roosevelt: The Time Young Fidel Castro Wrote to the U.S. President (and Asked for a Tenner)
It is an amusing yet historically revealing episode that, in 1940, a young Fidel Castro—yes, that Fidel Castro—decided to write a letter...


Adolph Coors III: The Heir to the Coors Brewing Company, His Kidnap, and His Murder.
Adolph Coors III was a low-key and well-liked beer executive. His father, Adolph Coors Jr., was a hard taskmaster, who ultimately gave control of the brewery to his 3 sons (Adolph III and his brothers, Bill and Joe). The brothers were expected to join the family business, although Adolph’s dream was to own a cattle and horse operation, and his brother Bill once confessed he had wanted to be a violinist until they both succumbed to “the family responsibility.” Ironically, muc
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