Since the era of "silent films," moving pictures are an important part of worldwide culture. How did movies get their start? What are the stories behind the movies? Enjoy hundreds of stories in this Collection.
Japan is prone to earthquakes; a major quake hits on March 11, 2011 and causes a major tsunami and a failed nuclear reactor.
The criminal charges haunt Erroll Flynn despite his acquittal.
Catholic Mary seeks help from Protestant Queen Elizabeth, who instead keeps her under house arrest for nineteen years.
This map, from PBS' "American Experience," depicts the areas where whales were captured between 1790 and 1924. Data for the map was retrieved from a s...
Germans force Jewish families to leave the Warsaw Ghetto on trains to a concentration camp.
Does Mary know that Booth, her son John, and others are meeting at her boardinghouse to plot the kidnapping of the president?
A murder attempt on Admiral Gaspard de Coligny, leader of the Huguenots (Protestants), starts a massacre.
Evidence tends to suggest that crop circles are not always manmade, especially when they contain no footprints.
As a sign of freedom, the American colonies begin printing their own money.
Wallace is dragged through the city, tortured, hanged, beheaded, drawn, and quartered.
Wallace is dragged through the city, tortured, hanged, beheaded, drawn, and quartered.
Due to his conviction of treason, Louis XVI loses his head at the guillotine in 1793.
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