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.
The Corning Museum of Glass has produced many different videos about glassworks.
This video clips depicts stained-glass windows in the Gower Street United Church, located in St.
Ukrainian farmers and their families die, by the millions, as a result of Stalin's policies enforced against them. They are left with no grain to sell...
To help rebuild the Soviet Union, Joseph Stalin and his government sent millions of people to forced labor camps.
After Stalin (born Iosef Vissarionovich Dzhugashvili) died in 1953, Khrushchev said the countrys former leader had committed grave injustices against ...
To this day, people in Ukraine (and elsewhere) remember the great famine of 1932-33.
Remains of this plant-eating, Jurassic-era dinosaur have been found throughout the world.
Stephen Bantu Biko (1946-1977) was a South African anti-apartheid activist who died, under suspicious circumstances, while in police custody.
The close relationship between Wall Street executives, and federal government officials, allowed "the market" to be a law unto itself.
The close relationship between Wall Street executives, and federal government officials, allowed "the market" to be a law unto itself.
The federal government did little to help the sinking stock market in October of 1929. At the end of five days, Americans (and others invested in the ...
Winston Churchill lost a fortune in the New York stock exchange crash of 1929. So did thousands of other people.
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