Whether it's people, places or events which fuel "the news," the fabric of our lives is impacted by world events. This collection features stories from ancient to modern times.
A tsunami wave strikes and destroys a commuter train and nearby villages in Sri Lanka.
View videos and listen to stories from tsunami survivors who explain their account of the destruction.
One way convoys crossing the North Atlantic could protect themselves, and the supply-carrying ships they were escorting, was to drop depth charges aga...
Because Churchill ordered all the code-breaking hardware to be destroyed at Bletchley Park, after Germany surrendered, original devices did not surviv...
A British ship and David Balme, a sailor, capture U-110 and its Enigma machine and code.
The British ship, HMS Aubretia, spots U-110's periscope and drops depth charges to disable the German submarine.
The British ship, HMS Aubretia, spots the U-110's periscope and drops depth charges to disable the submarine.
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.
German, Arthur Scherbius creates the Enigma device in 1923; the Nazis use the codes in WWII.
It is never easy to break the codes because the Germans change them frequently; finally the British learn to decode important weather signals.
As Ukrainians starve, the Soviet government covers-up the disaster occurring in Ukraine by selling more and more grain to other countries.
The Bolsheviks change their sharing policies to taking policies not long after consolidating their power.
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