Famous Historical Topics & Events Story Briefs

What are some of history's key stories and events which remain famous to this day? Check-out some of those topics.

By the 27th of April, the Deepwater Horizon plume was moving toward the coastline of Louisiana.

Composition of bodies: Elements and Humors - a miniature for On the Properties of Things [a thirteenth-century book translated into French during the ...

What was life like at the time of the real Dracula, a man known as Vlad Dracula (or, Vlad Tepes)? He lived during the time of great Ottoman conquests,...

Did ancient people view volcanic eruptions differently than we do?

This Welsh song, from the 18th century, remains popular. This stirring rendition is by the Royal Regiment of Wales' Band.

Merle Evans was leading the Ringling Bros. band during its July 6, 1944 performance in Hartford, Connecticut when a fire broke out.

Working on Deepwater Horizon, Mike Williams had to jump approximately ten stories from the rig to save his life.

Eyewitnesses saw a plane land on Mili Atoll in July of 1937. Could it have been Amelia Earhart and Fred Noonan?

As men looked for diamonds, soon after they were first discovered in South Africa, the landscape holding the precious stones was quickly transformed.

Ending on June 4, "Operation Dynamo" was a major naval rescue mission to save Allied forces from annihilation at the hands of Germany during the late ...

An astonishing true story about an ice-jammed British ship whose planks were transformed into the U.S. President's desk.

What does the Central Gulf of Mexico look like, from a geological perspective?

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