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.
Triceratops was a plant-eating dinosaur with huge horns and weighed around 5 tons.
In Norse mythology, trolls are supernatural and dangerous beings.
The Mahdi, wants to rid the Sudan of British and Egyptian influences and make the Sudan a pure Islamic state.
There is bad blood between the Earps, the Clantons, and the McLaurys.
A tsunami wave strikes and destroys a commuter train and nearby villages in Sri Lanka.
View videos and listen to stories from tsunami survivors who explain their account of the destruction.
One way convoys crossing the North Atlantic could protect themselves, and the supply-carrying ships they were escorting, was to drop depth charges aga...
Because Churchill ordered all the code-breaking hardware to be destroyed at Bletchley Park, after Germany surrendered, original devices did not surviv...
T-Rex is an extinct, meat-eating dinosaurfirst found in 1902 by Barnum Brown.
A British ship and David Balme, a sailor, capture U-110 and its Enigma machine and code.
The British ship, HMS Aubretia, spots the U-110's periscope and drops depth charges to disable the submarine.
The British do not want the Germans to know they have the Enigma machine so they tow the U-110 to Iceland where it eventually sinks.
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