When horrific things happen, how a person responds can make a difference in the rest of one's life. In this collection, learn how some individuals triumphed in the face of unspeakable tragedies.
Late in World War II, the Empire of Japan developed a new type of weapon. Young Japanese airmen flew planes with no landing gear. Their mission was to...
King Kong - a very scary movie for its day - opened on the 2nd of March, 1933.
Henry VIII made sure that his son, Edward VI, was educated by Protestants.
In this clip, we see Germany's much-feared rockets - the V-2/A-4 - during launch.
Not long after it was first possible to record the human voice (in an understandable way), the Soviet leader, Vladimir Lenin, addressed soldiers of th...
The charismatic Bolshevik leader, born Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov, helped to overthrow four hundred years of tsarist rule in Russia.
Who was the Buddha, the man who founded a religion followed by around 400 million people? Step back in time to uncover his origins.
NASA has released this re-entry and landing video of a mission during which the crew of the space shuttle Endeavour documented a reading of Mach 25.
Although Lillian Leitzel was well educated, and had the ability to become a concert pianist, she decided to be a circus performer instead.
Mark Logue - grandson of Lionel Logue and author of a book entitled The King's Speech: How One Man Saved the British Monarchy - takes us behind the sc...
Peter Ackroyd compares one great fire of London (during September of 1666) with another great fire (during the same month in 1940).
Abraham Lincoln's son William died on February 20th, 1862 of typhus.
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