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."
Early in the 17th century, William Buckland began to find some interesting fossils in the Stonesfield quarries (now known as the Taynton Limestone For...
Working on Deepwater Horizon, Mike Williams had to jump approximately ten stories from the rig to save his life.
As men looked for diamonds, soon after they were first discovered in South Africa, the landscape holding the precious stones was quickly transformed.
A moralisée, popular in the medieval era, is a pictorial Bible in which Biblical events and their “moralizations” are presented in ...
Have a look at this helpful book - Muhammad, Prophet and Statesman - by W. Montgomery Watt.
The land of modern-day Mumbai is geographically different than it appeared in earlier centuries.
Believed to be a superpower of ancient Greece, Mycenae was home to King Agamemnon.
Bona Sforza was the wife of Sigismund I of Poland. Her 16th century Book of Prayers contains many gorgeous illuminations, including the nativity of Ch...
When Nikolai Getman was 28 years old, he boarded a ship at Vanino.
WARNING - THE BEGINNING OF THIS CLIP, FROM A DOCUMENTARY ABOUT PABLO ESCOBAR AND HIS FAMILY, CONTAINS LANGUAGE NOT SUITABLE FOR CHILDREN.
Simon Bening created this illumination for the DaCosta Hours which was published around 1515. It appears for the month of November and depicts peasant...
William Penn's treaty with the Delaware, when he founded the Colony of Pennsylvania in 1681, helped to have peaceful relations between the Colonists a...
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