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 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.
Vorkuta, in Russia's northern climes, was once home to a Soviet-era forced labor camp.
The railway carriage in which Germany surrendered to France, at the end of World War I, had been housed in a French museum.
The Fukushima Nuclear Plant - one of many similar facilities supplying Japan with electrical power - was impacted by the 8.
Forced by the Church to give-up working on astronomical matters, Galileo returned to his experiments on the laws of motion.
Galileo was ordered to recite prayers and penitence each week, but his daughter - Maria Celeste - took that obligation about herself (although her hea...
Galileo - according to many scholars - was the creator of modern science.
The sights and sounds of the Iguazu Falls at Garganta del Diablo (Devils Throat).
Even though the people of Beijing had been without food for so long, because Genghis Khans men attacked their suppliers, the city still had a powerful...
Temujen's army eventually conquered 12,000,000 square miles.
Undaunted by the Great Wall, Genghis Khan and his army went around it.
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