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.
During the summer of 1864, Union engineers from Pennsylvania dug a tunnel under Confederate lines at Petersburg, Virginia, planning to detonate a huge...
This skull artifact is known as the "Skull of Doom" and the "Mitchell-Hedges Skull.''
Snafu Shelton describes his experience during the battle of Pelelieu
Dwarfs are a part of German folklore. In “Snow White” - known in German as Schneeweisschen - the dwarfs are miners.
During World War II, the American government wants a very large plane to be used in the war effort. Howard Hughes helps to make that happen, but his ...
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...
In late July, of 1942, Stalin issued an order (Number 227). The Soviet leader told the people of the city named after him to resist the coming German ...
Stanley Baldwin - also known as 1st Earl Baldwin of Bewdley - is Britain's Prime Minister during Edward VIII's abdication crisis. He opposes the King...
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 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 ...
Like thousands of other people, Winston Churchill lost a fortune in the New York stock exchange crash of October 1929.
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