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.
Patrick Magee, a member of the IRA, visits the Grand Hotel in Brighton about a month before the Conservative Party holds its annual conference there i...
This clip, from a 1968 Soviet-era adaptation of Brothers Karamazov (by Fydor Dostoevsky), depicts the scene (from the novel) in which Ivan Karamazov (...
In 1667, a French pirate known as Franois L'Olonnais plans an attack on Maracaibo (a city in todays northwestern Venezuela). Disastrous consequences ...
Henry Mucci needs Robert Prince - a man whom he calls my wonderful Captain - to plan the raid on Cabanatuan.
When scientists working in the Hammond Lab, at Jurassic World, decide to "create" a new hybrid dinosaur, they use the DNA of a South American predator...
In the late summer of 1831, Charles Darwin was invited to accompany Captain Robert FitzRoyon avoyage aboard a ship to South America.
Charles Darwin was grief stricken when his daughter Annie died (most likely from tuberculosis).
How did Charles Dickens, who released his famous Christmas story on 13 December 1843, become such a famous writer?
Learn about barn spiders, orb webs and life on a farm in this story behind E.B. White's "Charlotte's Web."
On the 1st of December, 1958, Our Lady of the Angels School, in Chicago, was the scene of a catastrophic fire.
This image - of children working in Britain's coal mines - is from an 1842 report prepared byLord Ashley(Anthony Ashley Cooper), later known asLord Sh...
Errol Flynn, a famous actor, died in Vancouver. Canadian authorities sent his remains to Los Angeles via train.
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