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.
After recovering from his arm injuries, the Chicago White Sox recruit Morris in the fall of 1988.
Dostoevsky suffers greatly due to the deaths of his wife and brother and gambling losses.
Barrie helps financially and emotionally as both Sylvia Llewelyn Davies and her husband die of cancer; their five young boys are orphans.
Read stories of America's response to September 11 from survivors and the families who lost loved ones.
"No Man's Land" is the open and dangerous territory between Allied and German trenches during WWI.
Sue is a nearly complete T-Rex skeleton, found in South Dakotabut now residing in Chicago's Field Museum.
The people prosecuting Joan decide her fate before the trial begins. She is not given a lawyer and the person prosecuting her is also the judge in the...
Once the parties agreed on an orderly way to arbitrate the case, about 36 claims were tried. The process took nearly two years. The plaintiffs' lawyer...
After his U-2 plane is shot-down over Soviet territory, Francis Gary Powers must stand trial in Moscow as a spy. Before that, he faces numerous interr...
False evidence and a conviction of treason result in a death sentence for Marie Antoinette.
James Donovan represents Rudolf Abel, an accused Soviet spy, at his trial which takes place in Brooklyn during the fall of 1957.
The settlement requires that PG&E stop using chromium 6, clean up the environment, and pay $333 million to the plaintiffs.
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