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.
In Norse mythology, trolls are supernatural and dangerous beings.
The Mahdi, wants to rid the Sudan of British and Egyptian influences and make the Sudan a pure Islamic state.
There is bad blood between the Earps, the Clantons, and the McLaurys.
A tsunami wave strikes and destroys a commuter train and nearby villages in Sri Lanka.
Tule Lake internment camp allow students to take class and families to grow crops.
T-Rex is an extinct, meat-eating dinosaurfirst found in 1902 by Barnum Brown.
A British ship and David Balme, a sailor, capture U-110 and its Enigma machine and code.
The British ship, HMS Aubretia, spots the U-110's periscope and drops depth charges to disable the submarine.
The British do not want the Germans to know they have the Enigma machine so they tow the U-110 to Iceland where it eventually sinks.
Depth charges from American ships damage the U-505 so badly that the U-boat must rise to the surface.
German, Arthur Scherbius creates the Enigma device in 1923; the Nazis use the codes in WWII.
It is never easy to break the codes because the Germans change them frequently; finally the British learn to decode important weather signals.
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