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.
Leonidas, King of Sparta, prepares to lead a Greek army against Xerxes, King of Persia, and his Immortals.
Police and news put evidence together to determine the kidnapping victim, Bobby, and the unidentified body in Indiana are the same.
The Quiet American predicts that America will make the same mistakes as France, with similar results.
T-Rex is an extinct, North American meat-eating dinosaur first rediscovered in 1902 by Barnum Brown.
Letters From a Broken Apple is an illustrated comic of Neil Kleid's view of New York on September 11.
First-hand accounts of Japanese preparations on Iwo Jima come from letters General Kuribayashi and others write home.
Darrow is able to win over the judge who shows mercy to both Loeb and Leopold.
Lewis writes A Grief Observed after the death of his wife, and it is one of the most popular books on grief.
Lewis and Clark reach their goal, the Pacific Ocean, in early January 1806.
Lewis forms "The Inklings," a group of writers including Tolkien, who regularly meet at an Oxford pub to discuss their writing.
Hitler orders the destruction of Paris because liberation is near; Paris is free in August 1944.
Thomas Nickerson, George Pollard and Owen Chase returned to Nantucket after the wreck of the Essex. Each coped in different ways as they tried to reco...
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