Whether natural or man-made, disasters simultaneously cause massive destruction and unity of people trying to help those in need. Discover some of the world's worst disasters in this collection.
Peter Ackroyd compares one great fire of London (during September of 1666) with another great fire (during the same month in 1940).
A judicial inquiry into the reasons for the wreck was headed by Lord Mersey, a fair man.
Russell Phillips - whom his crew mates called "Phil" - was still alive when this story about Louie's life was produced.
In 1947, Louis Zamperini met Cynthia Zamperini.
As Lusitania steamed across the North Atlantic, its passengers (such as the American, Alfred Vanderbilt) were not thinking about lurking U-boats.
When the torpedo hit her starboard side, Lusitanias bridge lost control of the ship.
Just west of the Old Head of Kinsale on Irelands southern coast, Lusitania was about fourteen miles offshore.
The Lusitania set sail from New York City in the spring of 1915, despite a warning from the German government which threatened to sink non-military sh...
Captain Turner had planned to go down with his ship, but he was knocked unconscious.
At 13:20 Greenwich Mean Time, on the 7th of May 1945, Captain Schwieger ordered a G-type torpedo to be loaded into a forward tube.
As Lusitania reached the southern part of the Irish Cannel, the British admiralty issued a warning that submarine activity in the area had successfull...
This 1918 animation, by the famous cartoonist Winsor McCay (1867-1934), depicts the 1915 sinking of the Lusitania, a ship of the Cunard Line.
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