Tom Simpson was Britain’s first World Champion road cyclist and the most complete rider of his generation. In 1967, he rode himself to death on Mont Ventoux during the Tour de France. This is the full story.

John Rogan stood 8 feet 9 inches tall, was the son of enslaved sharecroppers, refused every sideshow offer, and died in 1905 with his grave sealed in concrete. Here is the story nobody tells.

Six days in a Stockholm bank vault in 1973 gave the world a new psychological term. But the woman it was named after says she was never ill. She was just trying to survive.