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.
A DEA agent guards 5,137 pounds of cocaine seized from a Panamanian ship docked in Miami, Florida.
As Hitler's troops systematically destroyed Warsaw, it was becoming clear that Stalin also wanted the Poles crushed.
Streets became ravines in the massively damaged Warsaw as Poles faced the mounting consequences of their resistance.
In August of 1944, Poles in Warsaw decided to massively resist German forces still in their city.
This image depicts the Katyusha BM-13 rocket launcher.
In 1925, King George V asked his second son, the Duke of York (also known as Bertie or Prince Albert) to close the British Empire Exhibition at Wemble...
America joined World War I in 1917, nearly 2 years after the Guns of August began firing in the summer of 1914.
Westminster Abbey - formally known as "The Collegiate Church of St Peter at Westminster" - has been the scene of royal coronations (and other royal ev...
As more and more whales were depleted in the North Atlantic, whaling men traveled to the Pacific. Near the equator, they had found many sperm whales i...
Money in the bank doesn't always mean the same thing to people. Stone money is stored outside, not in a locked bank vault, on the Micronesian island o...
When and where did Easter eggs originate? When did people first write about them?
When Lt. Col Tuan refused to teach saboteurs how to drive tanks, during the Vietnam War, those saboteurs murdered Tuan, then machine-gunned his wife, ...
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