Stories

In 1952, the State of Israel found itself without a head of state following the death of its first president.

On March 4, 1865, the United States stood on the precipice of peace. As Abraham Lincoln prepared for his second inauguration, the atmosphere inside the Senate Chamber was heavy with historical significance.

In the vast, isolated landscapes of Australia, a ruthless campaign unfolds every single night, resulting in the death of five million native animals daily.

In 1964, physicians at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) delivered a catastrophic prognosis to a mother named Florence “Rusty” Tullis.

Visitors arriving at Slab City find a desert community unlike any other. The land once held a World War Two artillery training base.

In the late nineteenth century a small release of European rabbits in Victoria grew into one of the most rapid animal spreads ever recorded.

For decades visitors enjoyed the Greenbrier without knowing that a classified facility lay beneath their feet.

Each year in the village of Castrillo de Murcia in northern Spain a moment arrives when the streets fall silent and families wait for an event that has taken place since the year sixteen hundred twenty.

From early childhood Laurence Kim Peek displayed abilities that attracted attention from doctors, researchers and educators.

Visitors who reached the hillside village of Baktawng in Mizoram often came for a single reason. They wanted to see the man widely known for heading the largest living family on the planet.