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.
On January 6, 1838, Samuel Morse successfully tests an electrical telegraph. So why did it take years longer to send the first message?
This historic footage, filmed by the Thomas Edison film company in April of 1906, reveals very few cars in San Francisco at the time of the great eart...
As devastation envelops San Francisco, soldiers came to the aid of the city's people.
On the 1st of July, 2004, an orbiter called Cassini - carrying a probe named Huygens - began to transmit pictures of Saturn's rings to scientists on E...
For nearly 50 years, scientists around the world have been thinking about, and searching for, a sub-atomic particle called the "Higgs Boson.
The Preakness is coming up on May 19. In one of the greatest horse races of all time, Seabiscuit and War Admiral (the then-reigning Triple-Crown winne...
Likely the biggest sea predator of all time, the giant Liopleurodon - were it still alive - would dwarf a sperm whale.
Seamus Heaney, 1995 Nobel Laureate for Literature, was a world-famous poet who producednew workuntil shortly before his death in 2013.
Thomas Edison's film company recorded many significant events during the early twentieth century.
After his Triple-Crown victories, Secretariat raced one more time - on October 28, 1973.
Bill Nack, a sport's writer who watched Secretariat's triple-crown races, wrote a definitive biography about the great champion.
It was a very cold October day, in 1973, when Secretariat took the track at Woodbine.
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