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.
Themistocles - an Athenian leader in 480 B.
During the Tet Offensive, in early 1968, U.
In northern Scotland, about thirty miles north of Inverness, archeologists believe they have found evidence of a monastery raided by Vikings.
In 1992, the National Museum of Wales received some interesting artifacts found on the island of Anglesey (located off the northwest coast of Wales).
The shipbuilding skills of the Vikings were amazing.
On the 8th of June, 793, Vikings began their invasion of Britain, killing monks and looting a monastery.
On 28 March 1941, Virginia Woolf, the famous British author, drowned in a river near her home. A single recording of her voice survives. The BBC has r...
On the 12th of April, 1961, Yuri Gagarin was the first person to fly in space. See his launch and his recovered space capsule.
Bill Cotgrove was a World War I veteran who was very close to his horse during the war.
President Roosevelt dies on the 12th of April, 1945, at his Little White House in Warm Springs, Georgia.
When Hitler decided to take-over Poland, he sent his military forces into that country in 1939.
This BBC documentary, evidencing life and death in the Warsaw Ghetto, first broadcast as a memorial to the people who lived there.
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