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!
Children as well as adults must ration food and many other items.
Poe may be a victim of "cooping" when he is found ill and in distress in Baltimore. He dies alone in the hospital there.
Take a virtual tour of Cortona, a town in the region of Italy known as Tuscany.
King John has no intention of keeping his word when he signs the Magna Carta; he signs it to stay in power.
Crystal Skulls are human skull carvings made of quartz and may be pre-Columbian but carbon-dating is useless because quartz does not contain carbon.
Many of the principal commanders and troops are likely to die in the dangerous invasion of Normandy's beaches.
Only married four years, Joy Gresham Lewis passes at age 45 with Jack (C.S. Lewis) following three short years later.
Hexavalent chromium (also known as "Chrome 6" or "Chrome VI") is dangerous. This sign, positioned near PG&E's Hinkley compressor station, warns pe...
Father Pernin reports on the chaos in Peshtigo as people try to flee the inferno.
Four years after her marriage, Louis XV dies from smallpox and Marie Antoinette becomes queen of France.
Jackie Kennedy endures the unendurable when she sees her husband murdered. Soon after JFK's death, and before leaving Dallas, Lyndon Baines Johnson ta...
During the "Perfect Storm," the Andrea Gail and her six-member crew disappear without a trace.