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This historical footage, shot by the Edison Company soon after the 1906 San Francisco earthquake and fire, depicts the widespread impact of the disast...
Government agencies predicted that tsunami waves, generated by the March 11th earthquake, could extend to California's coast (among many other places)...
This clip - depicting the impact of Japan's tsunami on ships, cars and other vehicles - reveals the extent of nature's wreckage-producing power.
On the 4th of July, 2005, an 820-pound copper projectile called IMPACTOR struck a comet named Tempel 1. Watch an animation of that significant event.
70 years later, people still feel the impact of partitioning India into two countries (India and Pakistan) based on religion.
In this clip, the historian Simon Schama takes us inside Number 10 Downing Street - the London residence of Britain's Prime Minister - to see the "Whi...
Worried about his own future, and his lack of patients, Dr. Fred Banting had an idea during the middle of the night. What he thought about led to the ...
Once Dr. Macleod allowed Dr Banting to use a lab at the University of Toronto, research into the potential treatment of diabetes moved quickly forward...
The Romanov family was executed at the Ipatiev House in Ekaterinburg. It has since been razed, on orders of Boris Yeltsin.
Tsar Nicholas II and his entire family were executed late in the evening of July 16, 1918 at the Ipatiev House.
For nearly 100 years, Iran (formerly known as "Persia") has been at odds with "The West" over control of its own energy sources - first with oil, th...
While Iran was in a weakened economic position, due to an embargo imposed on it by the West, Iraq invaded its neighbor.
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