Bringing the World to Your Screen
You’ve probably seen them: those haunting black-and-white images of fetuses floating in the womb, wide-eyed, pale, and staring straight into the camera like tiny ghosts …
Two brothers who survived the Titanic after being put on the last lifeboat by their father who drowned had been kidnapped by him from their …
The True Story of Sixteen-Year-Old Maggie Hogan in Abilene, Kansas, 1883 In the cattle-dust streets of Abilene, Kansas, in the fall of 1883, a sixteen-year-old …
The Disturbing Truth About Master Sergeant John C. Woods He killed 347 people with a rope, and he did it with a smile. Between 1944 …
Look at the two photographs side by side. 1861 Abraham Lincoln arrives in Washington for his first inauguration. The face is long, angular, and unmistakably …
In the entire recorded history of medicine, only one human being has ever been officially classified as both a dwarf and a giant during his …
West Feliciana Parish, Louisiana – October 1844 The auction block that day was almost empty. Rain had turned the yard to red mud, and most …
British Guiana, 1871. In a small village near Georgetown, a boy was born with no arms and no legs (only a head, torso, and a …
Detroit, 1987. Crack was eating the city alive. Drive-by shootings were so common that mothers kept their kids on the floor at night. The police …
Da Nang, Vietnam – late 1976. The influenza arrived without warning, sweeping through the city’s overcrowded nursing homes like fire through dry grass. It was …
