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.
Nero became the Emperor of Rome in 54 AD.
THIS CLIP DEPICTS THE LIFE OF NERO, A ROMAN EMPEROR, AND CONTAINS RE-ENACTMENTS OF REAL PEOPLE AND REAL EVENTS.
This map image depicts the location of New Guinea, where Alamo Scouts and 6th Batallion Rangers trained for important missions (like the Cabantuan rai...
Queen Elizabeth II gave her grandson a new title - honoring the people of Northern Ireland - on the dayWilliam married Catherine Middleton(theDuchess ...
When Kamehameha I attempted to unite all eight of the Hawaiian islands, he was successful by 1795 with all but two - Kauai and the nearby island ofNii...
German troops, along Normandy's beaches, did their best to resist the Allied invasion. This clip provides a German perspective of D-Day.
This drawing, depicting the Battle of Monroe, is from the August 17, 1861 issue of Harper's Weekly.
The Soviet Union detonated its first atomic bomb on August 29, 1949.
Near the salt mines of Berchtesgaden is a mountain retreat called Obersalzberg ("above the salt mountain").
On a 20-kilometer estate, about 200 miles northwest of Bogot, Pablo Escobar created a private world for himself and his family.
Looking more like an estate than a prison, La Catedral is Pablo Escobar's self-designed and self-chosen place of confinement after he surrenders to th...
"A New India" was born in August of 1947 split into two along religious lines.
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