Dynamic Directory - December 13, 2025

Silkeborg Museum, located in the Danish town of Silkeborg, has an Iron-Age collection which features two mummies found in a nearby peat bog.

John Cabot - the Anglicized version of Giovanni Caboto's name - is believed to be the first European explorer to visit parts of North America since the Vikings reached what they termed "Vinland" (in the 11th century).

The Volga River is one of the longest in the world. Here are some key facts about it, and its topography.

This image depicts the back-cover of a recent edition of Mrs. Dalloway, one of Virginia Woolf's most-famous novels.

In 1954, a group of climbers on Chile's El Plomo Mountain found the mummy of a young Inca boy.

Dr. Johan Reinhard and his team found two mummies near the summit of Ampato (at an elevation of 19,200 feet).

It is clear from the way Tollund Man's body was found, in a Danish peat bog, that he died by hanging.

At first, it seemed that Tollund Man had been laid to rest without a violent death. The, his discoverers saw a rope around his neck.

This is a cropped image of the only-known photograph depicting Roxie Hart who was involved, as a witness, in a 1914 trial in Montgomery County, Indiana.

The Surratt family owned two properties - one, in Surrattsville, and the other in Washington City.

Lewis Thornton Powell was born in Alabama, lived in Florida and served as a Confederate soldier. He became a "Lincoln Conspiracy" Defendant.

After attacking Secretary of State William Seward - on the night of April 14, 1865 - Lewis Powell (also known as Lewis Paine/Payne) hid in a wooded area for three days and nights.

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

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

Ansel Adams, one of America's greatest photographers, started his professional life as a pianist. What made him decide to switch profressions?

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.

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

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?

Before the Pearl Harbor bombing, Japanese-Americans lived and worked on Terminal Island. After the bombing, their homes were destroyed and their way of life was gone forever.