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.
Nine months after her husband (King Louis XVI) was executed, Marie Antoinette followed him to the guillotine.
Mark Twain was born in a town called Florida in the American state of Missouri.
In its heyday, the American circus was the blockbuster entertainment center of the world.
On April 3, 1968 - while in Memphis supporting sanitation workers - MLK gave a moving speech. It was his last.
What was it like for ten-year-old children (and those even younger) to work as miners?
It was said, after Mary was executed at the Castle of Fotheringhay, that her lips continued to move for fifteen minutes after her head was separated f...
Francis Walsingham, a key advisor to Queen Elizabeth I, created a trap for Mary, Queen of Scots.
Mary, Queen of Scots had a good first marriage, but it ended when her young husband - Francis II, King of France - died.
Mary Todd married Abraham Lincoln on the 4th of November, 1842 (in Springfield, Illinois).
Henry VIII had a troubled marital history which impacted his country and his children.
Although he avoided an assassination attempt, Qin Shi Huangdi knew that one day he would die.
Medgar Evers was the NAACP's field secretary in Jackson, Mississippi.
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