Sometimes it's nice just to hear a story. Like the "golden age of radio," Awesome Stories features dramatizations of classics, narrated chapters of our own stories, radio interviews and radio plays. This collection benefits ESL, adult literacy and those who just want to close their eyes and listen to a good story!
Upon his death, Thomas' father leaves instructions that his son is to receive "a thorough classical education."
Once the parties agreed on an orderly way to arbitrate the case, about 36 claims were tried. The process took nearly two years. The plaintiffs' lawyer...
False evidence and a conviction of treason result in a death sentence for Marie Antoinette.
James Donovan represents Rudolf Abel, an accused Soviet spy, at his trial which takes place in Brooklyn during the fall of 1957.
Even after he was arrested in New York City, during 1935, Victor Lustig was not-yet finished with his lifetime as a con man.
Forced to flee France, because he "sold" the Eiffel Tower to unsuspecting Parisian scrap-metal dealers, Victor Lustig returns to Prohibition-Era Ameri...
A con man who twice sold the Eiffel Tower, for scrap, Victor Lustig (also known as "Tricky Vic") spent a career hoodwinking people for money.
In Norse mythology, trolls are supernatural and dangerous beings.
William Tyndale is largely responsible for the King James Version of the Bible, but his work is also burned.
Learn about Umbria and Tuscany, the regions in the center of Italy.
As they investigate a deadly virus which is infecting and killing people in the Yambuku area of Zaire, investigators decide to name the virus after a ...
Huge fires break out in several other Midwest cities on the same day, in 1871, that Chicago burns.