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.
A local judge and friend, Wells Spicer, absolves the Earps andDoc Holliday for the murders of the McLaurys and Clanton.
The three-part trading system consists of European goods, African slave labor, and British colony resources, such as coffee and tobacco.
Menelaus talks his brother, Agamemnon, into helping him get his wife back. The Greeks set sail with 1,000 ships and believe that they will win the war...
Mary, Queen of Scots is Elizabeth's Catholic cousin. Because Elizabeth has no children, Mary is her closest successor.
Tuskegee Institute is a flight school that graduates African American pilots.
U-boats are submarines the Germans use to attack Allied supply ships.
Navajo code talkers, speaking their unwritten language, create an unbroken code which greatly helps the Marines during their battle for Iwo Jima.
Although it seems the storm is over, by the early morning of November 1 the weakening system once again becomes a tropical storm.
Although he initially denies it, Albert Fish, the real-life model for Hannibal Lecter, admits to being a cannibal.
Within twenty-five years of her death, justice prevails and Joan of Arc's guilty verdict is renounced; the Pope orders a new trial.
The 8,000 victims of Galveston's Great Storm include orphans, nuns, patients and nurses. Bodies are hard to find, identify and bury.
In order to sever all ties with Great Britain, Congress unanimously approves the Declaration of Independence.
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