Geography provides a sense of place. What a country has, in terms of strategic location and natural resources, can determine its role in the world. See why geography matters in this collection of stories.
Henry Mucci and his special forces gather information and local help to plan the rescue of prisoners at Cabanatuan.
Evelyn provides a platform for reform with her story, but the Irish industrial schools still exist.
The movie Chicago is made after the 1996 revival of the musical.
Three of the Davies boys die, and Barrie dies of bronchitis in 1937; he leaves all rights to Peter Pan to help fund Great Ormond Street Hospital for C...
After Alexander the Great's death, his body is brought to Egypt where it is preserved. History records that in 30 BC, Caesar Augustus viewed the remai...
Xerxes chooses to bring his army through Thermopylae, in central Greece, which consists of a narrow pass between the mountains and the sea.
In the Roman Games, gladiators either fight each other or fight animals to the death.
Gladiators fight each other and animals in the Roman games.
The seven dwarfs are probably adult miners who suffer growth problems due to mining work as children.
The German naval ship, Wilhelm Gustloff, is full with civilians trying to escape the Soviet Army.
Even though the odds are against them, the people of Stalingrad overcome enormous hardships and hold out.
During the brutal Russian winter, citizens turn to cannibalism to survive; however, the German troops are only mildly better off.
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