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How did the events of his childhood shape the man who would become Genghis Khan? What impact did the...

What if Alexander had not died at the age of 32? What if he had listened to advisors and returned to...

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Picture the last two hundred years without the publication of Darwin's "On The Origin of Species" --...

The decisions of only a handful of individuals determined the course of the nuclear disaster at Cher...

What would the Civil Rights movement in the USA have been like if Martin Luther King Jr. had not bee...

The choices that Kong Qui known in the West as Confucius made during his career as a civil servant a...

The untimely death of the Roman Emperor of the Western Empire and the poor decisions of the Roman Em...

A famous scientist wrote the President of the United States and the face of war and our world was ch...

Elvis Presley paid $4 to record two songs for his mother and the rest as they say is history. But wi...

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The dramatic story of the defense of France against Hitler's invading army in order to enable the de...

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The Cuban Missile Crisis was one of the defining moments of the mid-twentieth century and of the pre...

Constantinople was a part of the Roman Empire then became the seat of the Byzantine Empire and then...

The encounter between the conquistador and opportunist Hernan Cortés and the indigenous peoples of C...

Timing is everything just look at what happened in 1848. How did the finding of gold in Sutter's Mil...

A disease that developed and killed within a few days decimates Europe and changes the course of his...

In the 17th century a long period of civil war in France and war across Europe rebellious members of...

Unable to bring mob boss Al Capone to justice for many of the crimes ascribed to him the US Federal...

How did one man succeed in relaunching the Olympic spirit and turn the Games into a global event?

In the 15th century an inventor in a workshop in Strasburg came up with a machine that would eventua...

In late Victorian England women began to organize to gain the right to vote. The fight for women's s...

The battle between the French and English for the French territory of New France hinges on the prese...

In May 1893 a man is thrown out of a train on the platforms of the train station of Pietermaritzburg...

While the Viking raids have come one after another in the Occident for almost a century in November...

In July 1799 during the French Campaign in Egypt and Syria the French soldiers of lieutenant Bouchar...

In the spring of 1943 after the successive failures of Moscow and Stalingrad the armies of the Reich...

1916 the Great War far away from the trenches in the sand of the Middle East war has a very differen...

At the end of a succession of civil wars which have weakened the Roman Republic Caesar proclaims him...

Rented by the BP oil company to drill an oil well in the Gulf of Mexico the Deepwater Horizon drilli...

August 5 1962 South Africa. After several months on the run the Black leader Nelson Mandela is arres...

In 1415 the Portuguese launch an era of explorations that will lead to the European discovery of the...

Since the end of the 19th century Indochina has been a flourishing colony the gem of the French Empi...

University of Glasgow Scotland 1763. A young engineer tries in vain to fix a steam engine before fin...

July 31 1784 Paris. Denis Diderot has just passed away and with him the memory of the biggest editor...

In 814 BC the exiled Phoenician queen Dido founds the city of Carthage on the African Coast. The cit...

Our distant ancestors were afraid of lightning. For a long time it was thought that lightning was se...

Early in their history humans realized that they could affect nature. Controlling fire making tools...

From the mysterious megaliths in prehistory to the first hot air balloons and the construction of th...

Join us now on a journey through the key events that have allowed us to better understand the world...

Join us on a journey through the key moments that enabled humanity to discover plastics.

Long-distance communication, moving stealthily through the dark without being detected, and observat...

Today our understanding of energy enables us to send rockets into space. Compared to our ancestors,...

Today we can run climate simulations on a global scale. We have learned to control rivers and protec...

From the infinitely small to the infinitely large, we have harnessed our expertise to develop incred...

Today, we know that many natural phenomena are based on the laws of physics. We can forecast the wea...

Today, in our daily lives, we use countless machines to do our hard work for us. Each of them obeyin...

We know how to handle numbers so large that all the books in the world would not be enough to contai...

Today, we are just beginning to understand what happens beneath our feet, in the heart of our planet...