Sometimes, the enemy was foreign. The British, trying to claw their rebellious colony back, burned the White House in 1814.

Like many other young women living in communist East Germany, Solveig Leo thought nothing about juggling work and motherhood. The mother of two was able to preside over a large state-owned farm in the ...

1.First, Mariska Hargitay, who has notably starred as Olivia Benson in Law & Order: SVU for 26 seasons, is the daughter of ...