People who change the world may, or may not, be famous in their own lifetimes. Often it takes years for others to understand forward-thinking contributions. This collection introduces you to some of the world's most-famous people
In 1968, the idea of Glasnost (openness and transparency within government institutions) and Perestroika (restructuring of Soviet economic and politic...
At nearly midnight, on the 4th of November 1605, Guy Fawkes was hours away from blowing up the Houses of Parliament.
Who were the Huns? What kind of soldiers were they? How did they accomplish so much under the leadership of Atilla?
In his autobiography, Yeats tells us how he came to pen this still-loved poem about Innisfree, an uninhabited island in Lough Gill (located in County ...
The much-loved story with a message for both children and adults.
On the night before Halloween, 1938, Orson Welles and his colleagues at Mercury Theatre on the Air played a prank on the American people.
On June 30, 1905, an obscure patent-office clerk in Switzerland submits a world-changing paper. Without the brilliance of Albert Einstein and his "mir...
Robert Leckie and other U.S. Marines fight the Japanese during the Battle of Guadalcanal. It is a fearsome time for such young men.
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 awak...
In 1987, Lillian Disney - the widow of Walt Disney - decided to give a gift to the people of Los Angeles.
William Wallace was betrayed near a well in Robroystan, Scotland. This image depicts that well.
This historic film footage, taken by the Edison Film Company, depicts the state of ruin in San Francisco, following the April 1906 earthquake and subs...
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