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.
Christopher Nolan (Inception, Dark Knight,) has a new film, Dunkirk. Its background begins during the middle of May, 1940, as Allied forces - includin...
When the BBC created its series "The World at War"—narrated by Sir Laurence Olivier—producers did not use all of the available historica...
District 12 - where Katniss and Prim Everdeen live - has an area called the Seam.
Not the only famous ship to sink during the first decades of the twentieth century, Titanic is the most well-known.
See the massive Allied bombing attack on Dresden, during February and March of 1945. Bomb runs began on February 13th, reducing the city to utter deva...
During a televised segment of the Rogers Commission hearings (on the 11th of February, 1986), Dr.
Prince Albert, known to his friends and family as "Bertie," has a new title - the Duke of York - when Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon finally agrees to marry him...
After the earthquake shook San Francisco, the city burned for several days.
In this clip from the Edison Company's historic film footage, taken immediately after the 1906 San Francisco earthquake, we see enormous damage.
Historic footage, filmed by an assistant of Thomas Edison, shows the devastated waterfront at Galveston after the Great Storm of 1900.
Thomas Edison ammounced his invention of the phonograph on the 21st of November, 1877.
American papers publish what the British papers will not publish about King Edward's relationship with Wallis Simpson.
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