After becoming the youngest U.S. women’s figure skating champion in history at only 13, Alysa Liu abruptly retired, stunning the skating world. “I was 16 and college was coming up. Like, I wanted to do so much. I went to Nepal, and I trekked to Everest Base Camp. Me and my friends would do tons of road trips. Yeah. I mean, I was really just living it up. I would say it was my best life,” says Liu. For nearly two years, she says, she didn’t think about skating. | 60 Minutes

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The Privateer that funded the rise of the pirate empire in Nassau…and he did it with Spanish treasure. Henry Jennings was a plantation owner turned privateer. When the Spanish treasure ships wrecked along Florida’s coast, survivors established salvage camps to recover the riches from the beaches. News of the treasure spread quickly across the Atlantic. Henry Jennings secured a Letter of Marque giving him legal authority to seize Spanish property. He landed his forces near the Spanish camp and qu