The Story of Us - from the beginning of time to the present - is usually written by "the victors." True-to-life events, however, must include opposing points of view. This collection features stories about people, places and events which go beyond "the already known and obvious."
An unknown miniaturist, working in Venice during the 1340s, created this work illuminating a page from Dante’s Divine Comedy. The 14th-century m...
In June of 2004, Dr.
The railway carriage in which Germany surrendered to France, at the end of World War I, had been housed in a French museum.
Gavrilo Princip, the assassin of Archduke Franz Ferdinand and his wife (Sophie), is very ill. Knowing he will soon die himself, the young man's action...
Continental Army General Horatio Gates was a war hero, but he was also ready to lead a mutiny after the Revolutionary War was over. It was called the ...
This image—from a never-completed work—portrays David (writer of Psalms and Israelite King). It was created by a miniaturist working...
On the evening of October 8, 1871 a spark set Chicago ablaze. Learn what made it such an at risk city.
In "The Great Chronicle of France of Charles V," we learn - among other things - that during medieval times the people of France believed they may hav...
As oil continues to spill into the Gulf of Mexico, from the uncapped well at Mississippi Canyon 252, BP (British Petroleum) and the U.S. federal gover...
In this image we see a castle in the town of Gyula, Hungary. It is named after Gyula III, a Hungarian ruler.Gyula is located in the Great Hungar...
During 1758, Halley's Comet appeared over the Hawaiian Islands; the same day, King Kamehameha I was born.
My story is about the Hawaiian Overthrow in Hawaii and how the throne was taken away from Queen Liliuokalani (the first and last queen of Hawaii). It ...
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