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.
Lionel Logue's wife Myrtle suffers a heart attack and dies on June 22, 1945. Personally consoled by King George, Logue writes (the following May) tha...
Read the words of King George VI, writing to his good friend and speech therapist Lionel Logue, just two months before the King's death.
Flying at 31,000 feet - above Lockerbie, Scotland - PanAm Flight 103 explodes in the night sky.
A judicial inquiry into the reasons for the wreck is headed by Lord Mersey, a fair man. By this time, however, Captain Turner is greatly reviled by ma...
Ten days before Parliament was scheduled to open in November of 1605, William Parker (also known as Lord Monteagle) was about to have dinner at his ho...
Killing Louis XVI took very little time on the morning of January 21, 1793.
When he arrived at the place of his execution, Louis XVI spoke to the gathered crowd.
Although they lived in the same building - the Temple prison in Paris - the French royal family was not allowed to be together unless the revolutionar...
Image of a painting, called Louis XVI Writing His Will at the Temple, by Danloux Henri-Pierre.
The Lusitania was a British ocean-going vessel able to achieve great speeds during her transatlantic crossings.
This 1918 animation, by thefamouscartoonistWinsor McCay(1867-1934), depicts the 1915sinkingof the Lusitania, a ship of the Cunard Line.
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