Dynamic Directory - October 18, 2026

The Surratt family owned two properties - one, in Surrattsville, and the other in Washington City.

After attacking Secretary of State William Seward - on the night of April 14, 1865 - Lewis Powell (also known as Lewis Paine/Payne) hid in a wooded area for three days and nights.

Samuel A. Mudd was a young doctor with several children when he met John Wilkes Booth in the fall of 1864.

This is a cropped image of the only-known photograph depicting Roxie Hart who was involved, as a witness, in a 1914 trial in Montgomery County, Indiana.

Lewis Thornton Powell was born in Alabama, lived in Florida and served as a Confederate soldier. He became a "Lincoln Conspiracy" Defendant.

In 1987, Lillian Disney - the widow of Walt Disney - decided to give a gift to the people of Los Angeles.

The Toronto Music Garden is inspired by J.S. Bach's Suite No. 1 in G Major for Unaccompanied Cello. In this video clip, Yo-Yo Ma—who was involved in the garden project—plays the Prelude.

Los Angeles has a large homeless population. Some of the city's homeless people live in the Skid Row section of town, not far from Disney Hall.

Joanne Pearce-Martin is principal keyboardist with the Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra.

As shown in this map, the western shore of the Dead Sea is located in Israel while the eastern shore is in Jordan.

(Robert) Vijay Gupta, child prodigy and friend of Nathaniel Ayers, is a violinist with the Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra.

Oliver Wendell Holmes is known for some of his free-speech decisions which he wrote while serving as a Supreme Court Justice.

Learn the story behind one of the most-famous photos of the U-boat War: The attack of U-569.

On January 6, 1838, Samuel Morse successfully tests an electrical telegraph. So why did it take years longer to send the first message?

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.

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.

On August 16, 1896 prospectors find gold in Alaska. The Trump fortune got its start as a result.

December-January of 2019 marks the 75th anniversary of the Ardennes Offensive, also known as the Battle of the Bulge. Hitler meant the major German offensive to turn the tide of war against the Allies. Instead, despite Germany's initial gains, the opposite happened.