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.
Blair Manuel - from Gonzales, Louisiana - was 56 years old on the day Deepwater Horizon exploded.
Roy Wyatt Kemp was scheduled to come home, for a time, the day after Deepwater Horizon exploded.
Shane Roshto, an employee of Transocean, was 22 years old on the 20th of April, 2010.
Even before Rome left Britannia, Anglo-Saxons tried to invade Britain. The Romans defended against such invasions by building forts along Britain''s c...
What did ancient people see when they arrived at Olympia to participate in the ancient Olympics or to worship at the Altis Sanctuary?Experts have piec...
Not long after she received her diary, as a birthday present, Anne Frank and her father took a walk together near their Amsterdam home.
Anne Frank, a Jewish girl living with her family in Amsterdam, was thirteen years old during the summer of 1942. At the time, German forces were...
Seamus Heaney was long known as "Famous Seamus" in his homeland.
Diplodocus was a massive dinosaur which ate plants. It had a really long tail which served as a counter-balance to its really long neck.
Did Bates, Lord Grantham's valet, push Green, Lord Gillingham's valet, into the path of a bus at Piccadilly? Did he have a motive?
Richmond, Virginia was an important town for Edgar Allan Poe.
Ellis Island, located in New York Harbor, served as a port of entry - between 1892-1954 - for millions of European immigrants hoping for a new life in...
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