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A prince, who was born Ying Zheng, became the First Emperor of China, who renamed himself Qin Shi Hunagdi. Who was he? How did he rule his ne...
Two days after launch, the shuttle Columbia returned to Earth.
On the 12th of April, 1981, the United States launched the shuttle Columbia into space.
On 18 March 1965, Aleksei Leonov was the first person to walk in space.
In this news-reel clip we see 5th Division Marines advancing on Iwo Jima behind artillery, naval, and aerial bombardment.
Kolyma, where the land is covered by permafrost for nine months and summers are insufferably hot, was once the scene of a notorious forced labor camp.
This video clip depicts the early days of a revolutionary concept in the making of cars - the assembly line.
The railway carriage in which Germany surrendered to France, at the end of World War I, had been housed in a French museum.
On the 1st of May, 1960, Francis Gary Powers (1929-1977) was a U-2 pilot flying an American spy plane over the Soviet Union.
In the summer of 1964, many white college students - from outside Mississippi - traveled to the Magnolia State to help black students aid African-Amer...
The French prime minister, Paul Reynaud, was still resisting Hitler - on the 12th of June, 1940 - despite significant advances Germany had made into F...
France celebrates "Bastille Day" every July 14th. Learn more about it with this humorous video clip from "Horrible Histories."
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