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.
When he was 18 years old, Pliny the Younger and his mother were living at his Uncle's villa in Misenum.
Robert Leckie and other U.S. Marines fight the Japanese during the Battle of Guadalcanal. It is a fearsome time for such young men.
Theseus and The Minotaur is a Greek myth about the son of an Athenian king - Theseus - and a horrifying monster - "The Minotaur.
When Steve Lopez met Nathaniel Ayers, he often found the musician playing in LA's 2nd Street tunnel, at Hill.
During the Irish Civil War, brothers formerly united in their desire for a free-Ireland are split apart by a major disagreement.
After working at Herodium, an important archaeological site in Israel, Professor Ehud Netzer (of the Hebrew University in Jerusalem) located what he (...
Ron Howard and his production company - Imagination Entertainment - have translated Dan Brown's book, Angels and Demons, into a film starring Tom Hank...
Trailer for the film, Black Hawk Down.
The story about la Bete was little-known outside France until a French-language movie (with English subtitles) was released in 2001.
J.M. Barrie - whose family called him "Jamie" when he was young - wrote one of the most-beloved of all children's stories.
Mary Surratt - accused of being a conspirator in the assassination of President Abraham Lincoln - was tried before a military tribunal, instead of a j...
Basilio Vargas is 14 years old.
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