Whether natural or man-made, disasters simultaneously cause massive destruction and unity of people trying to help those in need. Discover some of the world's worst disasters in this collection.
Families live in poverty in holes dug in the Irish bog.
Read a poem about the life of Professor Liviu Librescu, an engineering teacher.
Long-lining is a commercial-fishing technique that uses about 40 miles of hooked lines to catch large fish, such as swordfish.
Concentration camp neighbors are forced to view the camps to prove that it happened.
From discovering pasteurization to debunking the "spontaneous generation" theory, Louis Pasteur and his experiments produced astonishing results.
After successfully vaccinating fifty dogs, Louis Pasteur and his team meet a young boy who was bitten by a rabid dog. They must decide whether to inno...
Louis Pasteur's list of accomplishments is impressive, not least because so many of his ideas went against the grain of contemporary thinking. His mai...
The Baobab tree, often called "The Tree of Life," is disappearing with the rest of Madagascar's rainforests.
Passengers and provisions carried by the Titanic as she leaves for New York.
Belon and her family have no warning before the tsunami washes over them at a beach resort on the island of Phuket.
Samuel Clemens, writing as Mark Twain, began to earn a significant income. He didn't always invest his funds very wisely, leading him and his family t...
Read a poem about the life of Mary Karen Read, a 19 year-old freshman in Interdisciplinary Studies.
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