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.
The U-505 has a permanent home at Chicago's Museum of Science and Industry, where visitors can tour it.
German, Arthur Scherbius creates the Enigma device in 1923; the Nazis use the codes in WWII.
It is never easy to break the codes because the Germans change them frequently; finally the British learn to decode important weather signals.
Learn about Umbria and Tuscany, the regions in the center of Italy.
The early life of Dietrich Bonhoeffer and his decision to become a minister.
There were not enough planes and guns to defend the Philippines from the Japanese.
Trained to conduct salvage missions, Brashear and his team aboard the USS Hoist go to retrieve the missing hydrogen bomb.
Bombs strike the USS Arizona causing it to explode; 900 sailors die and the ship sinks.
Vasily Zaitsev is a famous and successful Russian sniper.
Vatican City is the center of the Catholic Church and is the smallest city-state in the world.
The Raptor is agile and can inflict serious damage with its "sickle"claw.
Due to sharp peaks, steep inclines, unsafe crevasses, and avalanches, K2 is not the setting for Vertical Limit.
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