Whether it's people, places or events which fuel "the news," the fabric of our lives is impacted by world events. This collection features stories from ancient to modern times.
From Imperial Russia to a Midwestern American town, the Third Imperial Easter Egg has an amazing history.
Slightly less than twice the size of Texas (in the United States), South Africa borders Botswana, Lesotho (which it completely surrounds), Mozambique,...
Not long after the Nazi invasion of Norway in April of 1940, an American journalist, Leland Stowe, wrote an article for TIME magazine about the events...
While he was head of Cheka, Felix Dzerzhinsky used Fanny Kaplan's attempted assassination of Vladimir Lenin to justify the use of terror against perce...
WARNING: THIS CLIP EXPLAINS HOW HITLER AND HIS REGIME DEVELOPED "THE FINAL SOLUTION" AGAINST JEWISH PEOPLE. Proceed with caution.
When Napoleon and his Grand Army reached Moscow, on the 14th of September, 1812, nearly the whole city had been abandoned. Then it erupted in flames. ...
During Germany's occupation of Norway, during World War II, the Norwegians suffered great hardships. Beyond the disastrous occupation itself, many peo...
Vorkuta, in Russia's northern climes, was once home to a Soviet-era forced labor camp.
This image depicts a scene from the investigation conducted by Nikolai Sokolov.
The railway carriage in which Germany surrendered to France, at the end of World War I, had been housed in a French museum.
On the 1st of May, 1960, Francis Gary Powers (1929-1977) was a U-2 pilot flying an American spy plane over the Soviet Union.
Meet John Hartnell and his mummified remains. A sailor who served aboard HMS Erebus, he died while exploring the Arctic with the Franklin Expedition.
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