Damn it, what’s up with this thing? Cars aren’t complicated, after all. I’m seven years old, I’ll have you know, and I’ll bet you I can...

His name was John Steele, but his brothers in arms called him “Big-Ass John,” since he was “kind of a clumsy fella”. He was a paratrooper...

He would forever miss that ship. For fifty years, Captain Edward J. Smith had commanded the  Admiral , the jewel of the British fleet...

It was the greatest fleet ever assembled for a military landing in human history. On the longest day, 6939 vessels set out for the...

My name is Fernando, and I was born in a small fishing village in northern Sicily. Our village is a little corner of heaven, and fish are...

Once upon a time there was a king who ruled supreme over France, and was known as the Sun King. Louis XIV was a powerful and prideful...

It was the spring of 1968 and Paris was in bloom, having cast off all taboos. Love knew no limits, and to hell with the judgements of the...

Mike had just landed himself a bargain: he’d bought a second-hand boombox from an electronics store on 42nd street, New York. The guy...

It was six in the afternoon in the eastern suburbs of Rome. At church, Christians were listening attentively to the priest as he...

Marcel Mangel was born into a Jewish-Polish family in northern France. His father owned a kosher deli in Lille, and was a fairly...

Aylin couldn’t sleep. It didn’t matter too much, though, because tomorrow was March 17, which was a public holiday, and she could sleep...

Stephen Hawking was born in 1942, into a family of academics who lived in Oxford, seat of the prestigious British university. The Hawking...

My name is Mehdi, and I live in a housing estate just outside Paris. I’m eight years old, so I’m a big boy now. My dream is to play for...

On October 13th 1972, the members of the Old Christians Amateur Rugby Club   of Montevideo, Uruguay, boarded flight 571 to Santiago,...

Bernard Buffet, nicknamed ‘the Little Prince of post-war art’ asked his partner’s opinion. He was always well-dressed, the cuff of his...

Moke is my best friend. People often tell me it’s odd to have an ape as a pet; they tell me it’s weird to eat lunch with a chimpanzee, or...

At the entrance to Cypress Hills National Cemetery, Brooklyn, a group of boy scouts were standing to attention and awaiting orders from...

Rosalie came here from Italy in 1887. She was from Rome, and carried a curvaceous figure. When she arrived in Paris she walked the length...

On this January morning, the people of Nantes had awoken to heartbreaking news: the Loire River had burst its banks, flooding everything...

Though we tend to forget it, the United States of America was colonised by the English for three hundred years. A combination of the...