Dynamic Directory - June 2, 2026

Mary Queen of Scots was tried for her part in the Babington plot to kill Queen Elizabeth. The evidence against her included the forged note.

In September of 1941, thousands of Jewish people were living in (and near) the city ofKiev(inSoviet Ukraine). The Nazis made a decision tokill those peopleduring their invasion ofthe Soviet Union.

The Babylonian Empire became a dominant force in the ancient world, after the fall of the Assyrians.

Hammurabi is the man who unites the Babylonian Empire, which is located in a part of the world known as the Fertile Crescent.

Hammurabi codifies 282 laws on a tall stele (slab) using cuneiform script.

The Egyptians have the Rosetta Stone; the Babylonians have King Darius who provides key information to unlock Cuneiform.

Steven Pressfield reveals ancient principles from the Hindu scripture, Bhagavad Gita, in a modern story set in the sport of golf.

After the 1929 stock market crash, the Great Depression is the worst financial failure in U.S. history.

The Great Depression is a time of despair with people literally starving in America.

The causes of the Great Depression are still debated.

The Legend of Bagger Vance is a fictionalized story based on the Hindu scriptural epic the Bhagavad-Gita.

Walter "The Haig" Hagen is one of the greatest golfers during the Great-Depression era.

Bobby Jones is one of the greatest golfers during the Great Depression.

Similar to Arjuna, Rannulph Junah does not believe he can be a champion.

With guidance, Arjuna and Junah can learn to be the best they can be.

Before he can find his "authentic swing," Junah needs to know how to live a better life. His story parallels that of Arjuna in the Bhagavad-Gita.

"The Legend of Bagger Vance" uses the game of golf to discuss the game of life.

Caddies help golfers with advice to improve their game in a similar way that spiritual advisors help people to improve their lives.

This illustration of Colonel Baker, planning the capture of John Wilkes Booth, is based on a photo by Alexander Gardner.

Banastre Tarleton (1754-1833), from Liverpool, was a daring British commander who won several battles in the South during the American Revolution. He was much-reviled, however, for his cruel tactics.

This art makes the everyday world its gallery and general pubic response its currency.

Baobab trees are known as a "Tree of Life" because they store water in their large stems.

A young girl is on a doomed ship but survives the Lusitania's sinking, along with her mother. She clutches a souvenir spoon throughout the awful ordeal, from the time the ship is struck until she is safely placed into a life boat.

This painting, of a ship theMarie Seraphique at Cap Francais (in Haiti), depicts a barricade which separated the main deck from the quarterdeck on a slave ship.

With baseball-card trading popular during the pandemic, check out how the game began and investigate some little-known facts about how baseball cards were first issued.

Although baseball's real beginnings are unknown, the first recorded game (in 1838) took place in Canada. Boys playing games with balls and sticks can be traced to Tudor England, Russia, Germany and Japan.

One of the early amateur teams playing in New York, the Knickerbocker Base Ball Club, adopts rules for the game.

Even though teams are playing baseball in the northern U.S., there is no evidence it is popular in the south until the Civil War.

Read quotes about baseball from famous authors such as Mark Twain, Walt Whitman, and Virginia Woolf.

Drawing large crowds of spectators, the first women's professional team forms in 1875.

Baseball's first "Colored World Series" takes place in October of 1924. Why did this happen?

See pictures of baseball and its players from the second half of the 19th century.

By 1860, Louis Prang is mass-producing small trade cards to introduce, or advertise, products.

Historians are not sure who made the first cards, which stiffened a pack of cigarettes, but James Buchanan ("Buck") Duke gets credit.

Perfect for advertising, Allen & Ginter is the first company to use baseball cards as cigarette package-inserts.

Bass Reeves was one of 200 Deputy U.S. Marshals appointed to help Judge Isaac C. Parker.

The Irish Rebellion of 1798 - when the United Irishmen attempted to free their country of British rule - ultimately did not succeed.

The SS City of Benares was torpedoed by a German U-boat on in 1940 despite the September cold and a stormy sea Bess Walder Cummings and her brother survived.

"Out of the blue," as survivors recall, the Battle of Britain begins on September 7, 1940. Hundreds of German bombers fly to England from their bases in occupied Northern France.

The battle at Cape Gloucester turned from uncontested to a vicious engagement.

Cape Gloucester was an important tactical area for the WWII Allies to secure, but the Marines who fought there endured staggering hardships.

After the Eleventh Corps disgracefully runs from battle, Couch''s Corps forms a new line of battle at Chancellorsville.

The battle of Cowpens (January 17, 1781) occurred in two phases.

Historians believe that Thomas Cromwell fought on the side of the French against the Spanish at the Battle of Garigliano in 1503.