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.
What is the Milky Way? Our solar system, including the Earth, is part of a larger galaxy called the Milky Way.
After a painstaking reconstruction of the Spanish-Flu virus, Drs.
Vivian Leigh, who played the role of Scarlet O'Hara, in "Gone with the Wind," was married, for a time, to the famous actor Laurence Olivier. In this c...
Vivien Leigh, who played Scarlett O'Hara in the film version of "Gone with the Wind" - produced by David O.
While Jason II (a Remotely Operated Vehicle) was diving along the Ring of Fire - at NW Rota1 Brimstone Pit in the Mariana Arc - scientists unexpectedl...
On the 12th of April, 1961, Yuri Gagarin was the first person to fly in space. See his launch and his recovered space capsule.
Sir Anthony Hopkins portrays Count Pierre Bezukhov in the BBC's 1972 production of War and Peace. Still shot, copyright, BBC, all rights re...
Bill Cotgrove was a World War I veteran who was very close to his horse during the war.
President Roosevelt dies on the 12th of April, 1945, at his Little White House in Warm Springs, Georgia.
When Hitler decided to take-over Poland, he sent his military forces into that country in 1939.
This BBC documentary, evidencing life and death in the Warsaw Ghetto, first broadcast as a memorial to the people who lived there.
During the late summer/early fall of 1944, residents of Warsaw - on their own - resisted the Nazi occupation of their city.
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