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.
Lionel Logue's wife Myrtle suffers a heart attack and dies on June 22, 1945. Personally consoled by King George, Logue writes (the following May) tha...
Read the words of King George VI, writing to his good friend and speech therapist Lionel Logue, just two months before the King's death.
On the 19th of October, 1926, the Duke (Albert Frederick Arthur George) meets the speech therapist (Lionel Logue) for the first time.
Do you know the background of "Little Women?" Meet Louisa May Alcott and learn how she based her still-famous story on her real-life family.
Abraham Lincoln's son William died on February 20th, 1862 of typhus.
Lucy Burns friend of Alice Paul worked internationally to get women the right to vote.
Scholars believe Shakespeare learned the story of the historical figure from a chronicle which was popular in England at the time. There was a differ...
Sir David Attenborough explains how part of Africa and India was split-off, to exist on its own as the island of Madagascar, and introduces us to some...
Ferdinand Magellan had an important goal whenhe leftthetown of Sevilleon the 10th of August, 1519: Find awestward routeto theSpice (Maluku) Islands.
Sailing in caravels, which are very uncomfortable, Magellan and his men encounter bad weather. Then they see "St. Elmo's Fire." Maybe something good...
Weeping for joy, Magellan realizes he's found a fabled passage when his ships sailed into the Pacific (from the Atlantic).
After Magellan dies, his remnant crew returns to Spain, completing the world's first circumnavigation. Extremely ill, the men do not realize their car...
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