History Chapters

The Story of Us - from the beginning of time to the present - is usually written by "the victors." True-to-life events, however, must include opposing points of view. This collection features stories about people, places and events which go beyond "the already known and obvious."

Hexavalent chromium (Chromium VI), a cancer-causing chemical used by Pacific Gas & Electric Company in Hinkley, poisoned the groundwater of the co...

Every month, PG&E sends 750,000 gallons of chrome 6 wastewater to the unlined ponds in Hinkley.

KLM 4805 taxies down the runway directly toward Pan Am 1736, unaware of the risk the bad weather causes.

Evidence is too much for both Loeb and Leopold who both confess to the crime.

Charlotte Doyle's abandonment of her family leads to the children's commitment to Ireland's industrial schools.

Russia sends an unmanned robot to the moon before Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin become the first human beings to walk on the moon.

After recovering from his arm injuries, the Chicago White Sox recruit Morris in the fall of 1988.

Once the parties agreed on an orderly way to arbitrate the case, about 36 claims were tried. The process took nearly two years. The plaintiffs' lawyer...

The settlement requires that PG&E stop using chromium 6, clean up the environment, and pay $333 million to the plaintiffs.

King James lives a dramatic life with literary aspirations and rumors about his relationships with the men in his court.

T-Rex is an extinct, meat-eating dinosaurfirst found in 1902 by Barnum Brown.

The British do not want the Germans to know they have the Enigma machine so they tow the U-110 to Iceland where it eventually sinks.

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