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.
As Rome conquered more and more far-flung lands, the empire was able to produce more gladiators.
On the heels of his Leonore disappointment, Beethoven also struggled with his personal life.
Have you ever wondered how people in Roman times made their glass vessels?
Every bout did not result in the death of a gladiator.
To kill a man for no reason, and just because it was expected of him in a game, was extremely difficult.
Some of the gladiators in ancient Rome are foreigners, captured by Roman legions.
Allied planes, and the British 8th Army, attack German positions in Africa across a forty-mile front.
Ronald Reagan became America's 40th president on January 20, 1981.
On the 12th of June, 1987, President Ronald Reagan visited Berlin.
On the 1st of December, 1955, Rosa Parks was riding on a bus in Montgomery, Alabama. When the driver ordered her to give-up her seat for a white perso...
Not long after J. Howard Miller - the artist at Westinghouse who created the "We Can Do It!
This video clip, from the 1930s, shows circus roustabouts - like those in Water for Elephants - as they do the hard work erecting the "Big Top" and th...
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