Sometimes failure is more successful than success. Consider the case of a then-unknown Evel Knievel’s attempted 1967 motorcycle jump over the fountain at Cesar’s Palace: He botched it, breaking an ...

It might seem hard to believe now, but there was a time when a cape-wearing man best known for crashing his motorcycle was one of the biggest names in U.S. pop culture. That name: Evel Knievel. With ...