Dynamic Directory - August 16, 2018

Sully and Jeff Skiles had 208 seconds between a bird strike and a forced water landing on the Hudson. Both testified during the NTSB investigation.

Dr. Robert O. Wilson, born in the Chinese city of Nanking (Nanjing), stays to help victims of a massacre while others flee to save their own lives.

During the recent solar eclipse, scientists further tested Einstein's famous theory (which resulted from a thought experiment leading to the concept of space-time). Can we break this down into layman's terms?

Is the story about Isaac Newton and the falling apple true or just a legend? A 1752 manuscript may provide an answer.

Also known as the "African Emperor," Septimius Severus, a Caesar, rules the Roman Empire for nearly 18 years.

Britain needs an effective warning system to alert the country if Spain sends an Armada of ships with invading soldiers aboard.

Meet the real Erling Storrusten, the inspiration for Margi Preus' main character, Espen, in her novel "Shadown on the Mountain."

Believing that presidential candidate César Gaviria Trujillo would be aboard Avianca Flight 203, on November 27, 1989, Pablo Escobar ordered that a bomb be placed on the plane causing its destruction as it flew between Bogota and Cali, Colombia.

What is the weight of a space shuttle orbiter? What is its length? What is the combined number of miles flown by the shuttle fleet? The answers may surprise you.

Robert (Rob) Lavinsky, PhD, took this photo. He describes a piece of feldspar: A superb, textbook feldspar crystal.

A world-renowned scientist and AIDS researcher, Dr. Joep Lange was a passenger on Flight MH17 when it crashed over Ukraine on July 17, 2014.

Working for his patrons, the Esterhazy family, Haydn has a room at theirpalace in Eisenstadt(in theeastern partof Austria) and atEsterhaza(innorthwestern Hungary).

On July 27, 1890, Vincent van Gogh walked to a field and shot himself. Why did few recognize his genius while he was alive? Who was the artist whose paintings today are among the most-valuable in the world?

England's National Day features St. George, the Dragon Slayer, who is the patron saint of many countries, including England. What is the story behind this famous legend?

Long before anyone could actually build "The Golden Gate Bridge,'' the narrow passage of deep and turbulent water connecting the Pacific to the San Francisco Bay was known as the Golden Gate. Find out how this happened.

Hermann Oberth, one of the world's three "Fathers of Rocketry and Astronautics," became interested in his life's work when, at age 14, he read Jules Verne.

Hubble, the orbiting space telescope, transmits unbelievably beautiful images to Earth. One of its most extraordinary images is this infrared view of the Horsehead Nebula.

Hugh Alexander, portrayed by Matthew Goode in "The Imitation Game," was a British chess champion who was recruited to be a code breaker at Bletchely Park's Station X.

Krakatoa's tremendous volcanic eruption causes a devastating tsunami on August 26, 1883. It also produces the loudest-ever-reported sound when the island tears itself apart.