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.
Allies came ashore on August 19, 1942 to German occupiers at the ready, casualties were high.
Scientists believe that this plant-eating creature was the largest dinosaur of the Jurassic Age.
Christopher Nolan (Inception, Dark Knight,) has a new film, Dunkirk. Its background begins during the middle of May, 1940, as Allied forces - includin...
Two Italian academics, who helped propel the world into the modern age, were working in, or near, Bologna in the late-18th century.
Underneath London's Royal Institution, Humphry Davy creates more than 800 Voltaic-Pile batteries and stuns his audience with an extremely bright elect...
Thomas-Francois Dalibard and Georges-Louis Leclerc (the Count of Buffon) translated Benjamin Franklins theories about studying electricity into French...
Conducting an experiment to measure the voltage emitted by a Torpedo Fish, when catching its prey, Professor Jim Al-Khalili (from the Open University)...
Two Italian professors - Galvani and Volta - try to determine whether electricity inside or outside a dissected frog makes its legs twitch.
When the BBC created its series "The World at War"—narrated by Sir Laurence Olivier—producers did not use all of the available historica...
As a young man, Dostoevsky - and some of his friends - received a death sentence.
A late-nineteenth-century hero from Scotland, Dr.
See the massive Allied bombing attack on Dresden, during February and March of 1945. Bomb runs began on February 13th, reducing the city to utter deva...
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