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.
France celebrates "Bastille Day" every July 14th. Learn more about it with this humorous video clip from "Horrible Histories."
The North Atlantic seas south of Iceland were relatively calm on May 9, 1941 as a British convoy made its way from England to Nova Scotia.
The Fukushima Nuclear Plant - one of many similar facilities supplying Japan with electrical power - was impacted by the 8.
In 1616,Galileo had agreed not to teach the Copernican theory.
Continuing with his theories on motion, Galileo used a horse to demonstrate that the Earth moves.
By the following spring, after Tuscany was no longer severely threatened by the plague, Galileo could once again communicate with Rome.
Galileo Galilei was born at a time when people believed the sun revolved around the earth - a theory originally proposed by the Greek philosopher Aris...
Forced by the Church to give-up working on astronomical matters, Galileo returned to his experiments on the laws of motion.
Galileo was ordered to recite prayers and penitence each week, but his daughter - Maria Celeste - took that obligation about herself (although her hea...
Galileo - according to many scholars - was the creator of modern science.
When Galileo began to experiment with his new telescope, by pointing it to the sky, he made the world's first astronomical observations.
An assistant of Thomas Edison filmed this panorama of Galveston's Orphan Home.
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