The Sixty-Four Thousand Dollar Question was the hottest show on television in 1955.  The more Joyce watched the program, the more she thought, “I could do that.”  At the time, Joyce had given up her job to raise her daughter…

  The Koh-i-noor diamond is among the world’s most spectacular.  It is part of the British crown jewels, presented to Queen Victoria by a maharajah in India when the maharajah was only a young boy. Years later, as a grown…

Opera star Marguerite Piazza was at the height of her career, married to a devoted husband, mother of six healthy children.  And then her world seemed to turn upside-down.  Her husband died suddenly and soon after, a spot on her…

  A feud developed between two families who lived side-by-side in the mountains of Kentucky.  It started when Grandpa Smith’s cow jumped a stone fence and ate Grandpa Brown’s corn.  Brown shot the cow.  A Smith boy then shot two Brown…