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.
It is the 29th of July, 1588, and a huge fleet of ships - known as the Spanish Armada - approaches the English Channel. The future of Britain hangs in...
As ships of the Spanish Armada continued to make their way east, in the English Channel, neither side had harmed the other. Although two Spanish...
As an unfavorable wind began pushing Spanish ships toward the sand banks of Flanders, priests on board ship began hearing the sailors' last confession...
For two centuries, a set of hanging tapestries depicting scenes from Britain’s 1588 battles with Spain’s great Armada were displayed in We...
During September of 1918, Dr. Victor Vaughan- former president of the American Medical Association and then-dean of the Medical School at the Universi...
In the U.S., during World War I, the number of people who died from Spanish Flu exceeded the number of soldiers who were killed during the war.
Homes in Pompeii, before Vesuvius erupted in 79 AD, were not only beautiful in their own right, they also included beautiful gardens.
In this U.S. Air Force photo, we see four C-123s spraying defoliant in September of 1965.
Meet Laika, the first living creature to fly in space 60 years ago, on November 3, 1957. Learn what really happened to her.
Sri Lanka - an island in the Indian Ocean, off the southern coast of the Indian subcontinent - is a place of lush beauty and rich history.
After the Battle of Waterloo was over, people were stunned at the number of casualties. It was Napoleon's final military effort.
Once on the same side of conflict, following their 1939 Non-Aggression Pact, Hitler and Stalin would soon be at opposite ends of "The Great Patriotic ...
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