Dynamic Directory - September 29, 2022

Four coordinated attacks via four separate airplanes devastate America's sense of security on September 11, 2001.

After he leaves the house, around midnight, Huck Finn joins his buddy, Tom Sawyer.

Huck Finn has a father who beats him.

When she was just a child, Katharina von Bora was sent to live in a convent (at Brehna, north of Leipzig) after her mother died. She later became the wife of Martin Luther.

Hera was the wife of Zeus, therefore queen of the gods of ancient Greece, according to Greek mythology.

This image depicts a vase on which an ancient Greek artist has created the story of Hippodameia and Pelops.

This image depicts a plaster cast which copies a marble statue of Oinomaos, the father of Hippodameia.

The ruins of the running track, the stadion, are very close to the center of the town of Olympia.

Lina Radke, a German-born athlete, refused to be intimidated by cultural limitations on females participating in sports.

When the discus was part of an Ancient-Olympic event, a votive discus was sometimes created to herald stellar performances of the athletes.

The Ancient Olympics included equestrian events, beginning circa 680 B.

Learn the story behind one of the most-famous photos of the U-boat War: The attack of U-569.

As Alan Turing and his Bletchly Park colleagues worked feverishly to break the Enigma code, they caught a break when the Royal Navy captured U-110 on May 9, 1941. Onboard was a working Enigma machine and secret codes for the following month. Initially towing the disabled U-boat to Iceland, the crew with the secret treasure was redirected to Scotland.

Professor Wiles has won the Abel Prize for solving Fermat's Last Theorem. How long did it take to solve it? How did he do it?

On January 6, 1838, Samuel Morse successfully tests an electrical telegraph. So why did it take years longer to send the first message?

Oliver Wendell Holmes is known for some of his free-speech decisions which he wrote while serving as a Supreme Court Justice.