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.
Leopold and Loeb lure Bobby Franks into a rental car where Loeb allegedly kills the young boy with a chisel.
An eyewitness sees Edward Hyde murder Sir Danvers Carew, an esteemed Member of Parliament and Gabriel Utterson's client.
The English put Joan on trial for witchcraft, sorcery, heresy and for wearing men's clothes; they believe a teenage girl cannot beat them in battle.
Millions of readers know C. S. Lewis as the creator of the characters and the imaginary world depicted in "The Chronicles of Narnia."
Hundreds of millions of readers know C. S. Lewis as the creator of the characters and the imaginary world inThe Chronicles of Narnia.
During the 1930s circuses thrive, look at old circus posters.
With Washington as the Commander-in-Chief of their army, the colonists use rebel tactics and traps to hold their ground.
Thousands of Germans flee as the Russian army seeks revenge.
PG&E has a compressor station in Hinkley (in theMojave Desert), which puts large amounts of toxins into the water, soil, and air.
The natural-gas compressor station—owned by Pacific Gas & Electric at Hinkley, California—used hexavalent chromium which was discharge...
Wyatt Earp is arrested and charged with the murders of Frank McLaury, Tom McLaury, and Billy Clanton.
Twenty men and one 14-year-old cabin boy leave Nantucket, aboard a whaleship called Essex. They plan to fill the barrels in their cargo hold with oil ...
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