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.
From the age of 5 to 15, Beatrix spends summers in Scotland where she falls in love with nature.
Potter spends summers in the Lake District and uses its surroundings in The Talk of Peter Rabbit.
A Soviet sub hit the Wilhelm Gustloff with three torpedoes.
In order to survive, starving men of the whaleship Essex resort to cannabilism, the very thing which kept them from seeking refuge at islands much-clo...
Lucas, Belon's son, describes living through the tsunami, the survivors, the hospital and rescue by his father and brothers.
Rosenthal's photograph of Mt. Suribachi is famous, and survivors of the flag-raising return to the US to raise money for the war effort.
For six months Frank is in a Malmo, Sweden prison before the Italian government prosecutes him.
Barrie meets Sylvia Llewelyn Davies and her two boys at Kensington Gardens; he tells the boys stories of pirates, fairies and desert islands.
Since the time of Ulysses, the Greek island of Cephalonia has a rich history of folk tales, tragedies, artifacts and winemaking.
Tania Chernova is a Russian-American who comes to Russia to learn how to be a sniper and help defeat the Germans.
One theory, about the Whitechapel-area muders, suggests that Prince Albert Victor is Jack the Ripper.
After the Swann case ruling, from the Supreme Court, T. C. Williams High School begins serving black and white students.
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