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“Hearteningly strange . . . Collins exhumes little-known figures [and] recounts their perversely inspiring battles against the more logical ways of the world.

They hold in common the silenced aftermath of failure, the name that rings no bells.".

History will always remember the Edisons, Einsteins and Darwins. But what about the others with similarly revolutionary ideas, but who plummeted into oblivion?

John Banvard (1815 - 1891) was a famous American painter. He is best known for his panoramic views of the Mississippi River Valley. The description of his panor

In Lady into Fox, Silvia Tebrick, the 24-year-old wife of Richard Tebrick, suddenly becomes a fox while they are out walking in the woods. Mr. Tebrick sends awa