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.
Going against accepted standards, Howard Hughes asks the courts for the right to manage his family business before he turned 21. He won his case.
Spiders begin their meal by vomiting digestive fluids on their food, chewing it with their jaws, swallowing it and then digesting it!
This photo, online via the National Museum of the U.S. Air Force, depicts an Enigma machine in use during World War II. Curators of the museum p...
Certain types of atoms, like uranium 235, can split. The splitting of those atoms is called nuclear fission.
The Wright brothers discover how to test lift and drag and how to use a propeller in the air.
Slaves are sold as property as though they are animals; many are beaten and families are split up.
Carl Brashear is born in 1931 to sharecropping parents, who live in Kentucky during the time of restrictive "Jim Crow Laws."
Andrew Hodges, the biographer of Alan Turing, took this picture of Bletchley Park huts as they appeared in 1998. He describes the photo: "Hut Ei...
North Vietnamese (PAVN) General Phuong describes battle preparations for Ia Drang, where they began a five-phase attack against the South (ARVN).
The Titanic hits the iceberg soon after Frederick Fleet sees it.
How are icebergs formed and why are they dangerous?
Constant snowcover on K2 masks openings to ice caves and crevasses.
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