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Ansel Adams Ansel Adams, one of America's greatest photographers, started his professional life as a pianist. What made him decide to switch profressions? | |
Alaska Purchase and the Klondike Gold Rush On August 16, 1896 prospectors find gold in Alaska. The Trump fortune got its start as a result. | |
Oliver Wendell Holmes Oliver Wendell Holmes is known for some of his free-speech decisions which he wrote while serving as a Supreme Court Justice. | |
Acropolis - Parthenon with Statue of Athena | |
Samuel Morse and Alfred Vail - Morse Code On January 6, 1838, Samuel Morse successfully tests an electrical telegraph. So why did it take years longer to send the first message? | |
German U-Boat under Attack Learn the story behind one of the most-famous photos of the U-boat War: The attack of U-569. | |
The Last Day of Abraham Lincoln - by Henry Riggs Rathbone Major Henry Reed Rathbone and his fiancé, Clara Harris, attended a play with Abraham and Mary Lincoln on the night the President was shot. Booth lunged at Rathbone with a knife, injuring but not killing him. Learn how the assassination claimed more victims, years later, when Rathbone himself lost his mind. | |
Bobby Jones Envisions Augusta National Golf Club | |
Pius X Opposed WWI - Buried at St. Peter's Basilica Before he became a pope, Giuseppe Sarto had a great deal of experience living among his parishoners. As Pope Pius X, he strongly opposed the outbreak of WWI. | |
Japanese-American Fishing Village Destroyed at Terminal Island Before the Pearl Harbor bombing, Japanese-Americans lived and worked on Terminal Island. After the bombing, their homes were destroyed and their way of life was gone forever. | |
Fermat's Last Theorem - Professor Andrew Wiles Professor Wiles has won the Abel Prize for solving Fermat's Last Theorem. How long did it take to solve it? How did he do it? | |
Towing U-110 to Iceland As Alan Turing and his Bletchly Park colleagues worked feverishly to break the Enigma code, they caught a break when the Royal Navy captured U-110 on May 9, 1941. Onboard was a working Enigma machine and secret codes for the following month. Initially towing the disabled U-boat to Iceland, the crew with the secret treasure was redirected to Scotland. | |
Coronation Chair and the Stone of Scone After King Edward I (of England) removed the Stone of Scone (from Scotland), in 1296, he ordered the creation of a special throne (called the Coronation Chair). | |
Space Shuttle - O-Ring Seals During Leak Checks When technicians are checking whether the O-rings are properly seated, on the space shuttles Solid Rocket Motor, they check for potential leaks. | |
Titanic's Urgent Message Jack Phillips, Titanic's senior wireless operator, sent this urgent message at about 1:40 AM (local time) on the 15th of April, 1912. | |
Space Shuttle: Eroded O-Ring Illustration Eroded O-rings caused the loss of the space shuttle Challenger. This image depicts how hot gasses were not kept away from the shuttle's fuel during launch. | |
Romanov Execution - The Death Squad This image depicts members of the Uralsoveta (Ural Soviet) who were in power when the Romanov family was murdered. | |
Space Shuttle - Solid Rocket Booster Exploded View During the era of shuttle missions, each shuttle launch included two solid rocket boosters (SRB) which helped to fuel the first minutes of flight. | |
Einstein's Letter to President Roosevelt, Page 2 This image depicts the second page of a letter - from Albert Einstein to President Roosevelt - which changed the world. | |
The Romanovs: The Final Chapter The last days of the Romanov family begins with these words: ''At midnight, Yakov Yurovsky, the leader of the executioners, came up the stairs to awaken the family.'' |