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."
Leopold and Loeb together with the prosecutors (who would soon seek the death penalty against them) at the time of their confession to the crimes of k...
When Pope Gregory VII was born, circa 1025, his family lived near Sovana (which was then part of the Papal States).
Pope Leo X issued a Papal Bull (directive) called Exsurge Domine (in English, from Latin, "Arise O Lord") on the 15th of June, 1520.
Ralph Waldo Emerson, one of America's famous nineteenth-century thinkers and writers, endured a great deal of sadness in his life.
This image depicts members of the Uralsoveta (Ural Soviet) who were in power when the Romanov family was murdered.
When his friend and patron Archduke Rudolph - youngest son of Emperor Leopold II and brother of Emperor Franz - was appointed Archbishop of Olmtz, Bee...
Columba (521-597), the famous saint of Scotland, was actually an Irishman.
This aerial view depicts the San Andreas as it slices through the Carrizo Plain.
This image depicts a sculpture of Seneca the Youngerby Puerta de Almodvarin Crdoba, Spain.
This painting of King Sigismund I, from Poland, was created by Lucas Cranach the Younger (1515-1586) around 1553. The oil-on-tin plate measures 19.5 ...
Silkeborg Museum, located in the Danish town of Silkeborg, has an Iron-Age collection which features two mummies found in a nearby peat bog.
Eusebius Sophronius Hieronymus - more commonly known as Saint Jerome - was a 4th century scholar who translated the Bible into Latin.
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