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.
Although people in Thailand had previously experienced the effects of an earthquake, they were unfamiliar with tsunamis and their amazing power to des...
Typhoid Fever - a life-threatening disease caused by bacteria, not by a virus - still impacts about 21.5 million people every year.
Francis Gary Powers was flying a Lockheed U-2 over Soviet territory when he was shot-down by a surface-to-air missile on May 1, 1962.
"Ultra" was the cover-name given to the actual intelligence, obtained from decoding Germany's military messages at Bletchley Park, which was secretly ...
Uppsala, Sweden's fourth-largest city, plays a significant role in Lisbeth Salander's life.
The Attica State Correctional Facility, thirty miles east of Buffalo in upstate New York, was an overcrowded place in 1971.
A disaster unfolded at Attica State Prison when officials and inmates clashed during 1971.
WARNING: THIS VIDEO CLIP CONTAINS GRAPHIC PICTURES AND EXPLICIT LANGUAGE USED BY ANGRY, UPSET PEOPLE WHO WERE INVOLVED IN THE ATTICA PRISON UPRISING.
Thackeray's drawings, in his 1848 edition of Vanity Fair, tell us something about the way he views his characters (and Victorian society).
In The Girl Who Played with Fire, a murder occurs in the Vasastan District of Stockholm.
Vsterbotten is a county in northern Sweden, consisting of numerous municipalities. It plays a role in the writings of Stieg Larsson.
Verdun is an example of winning a battle by attrition; the human losses are staggering.
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