Courtroom battles often produce sensational scenes resulting in curious spectators and endless news coverage. From ancient to modern times, trials attract significant attention. This collection explores some of the most-fascinating.
While Theseus was sailing to Crete, as a Tribute for King Minos and the Minotaur, the monster had a dream.
As his own father had abandoned his mother and her baby, Theseus abandoned his new wife, Ariadne.
Theseus learned that his father was Aegeus, King of Athens, after he was able to move a heavy rock and discover what was beneath it.
Los Angeles has a large homeless population. Some of the city's homeless people live in the Skid Row section of town, not far from Disney Hall.
Mose Wright (also called Moses Wright) is Emmett Till's great-uncle. When Roy Bryant and J.W. Milam are tried for the murder of Emmett Till, Mose Wrig...
When the Puritans arrived in America, they continued the use of the pillory. Intended to punish people by humiliation, among other things, the pillory...
Alleging that Socrates was corrupting the youth of Athens, the government of this city-state tried the famous philosopher. A jury of 500 people first ...
Africa had its own system of slavery, before the European slave trade, but it involved a system of justice.
This video clip contains historical footage of the trial of downed U-2 pilot Francis Gary Powers. The three-day trial took place in August of 1960.
Francis Gary Powers was tried as an American spy after the Soviets shot-down his U-2 while Powers was flying near Sverdlovsk, Russia.
Raffaello Sanzio (or Santi) - more commonly known as Raphael - was born in 1483 and died, on his 37th birthday, in 1520.
El Greco ("The Greek," who used his birth name, Domnikos Theotokpoulos, to sign his paintings) created this work for the Primate Cathedral of Saint Ma...
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