Knievel seemed braver and more brazen - and more unhinged - than any other athlete-cum-thrill-seeker of his era.

With the newspapers cheering, Lieutenant Colonel Roosevelt chose a top-notch regiment of more than 1,250 men. They were first called Teddy's Texas Tarantulas and went through three or four other monikers until Roosevelt's Rough Riders stuck.

The world of high-stakes international diplomacy can be rough and tumble, but it's more often than not a procession of suits and summits, protocol sessions and photo ops.

Unfortunately, one of the biggest misperceptions the American public harbors is that Katrina was a week-long catastrophe. In truth, it's better to view it as an era.

The myth-making about Appomattox started from the moment Lee left the courthouse on his horse to travel to Richmond.

New Orleans is just a microcosm of Newark and Detroit and hundreds of other troubled urban locales.