Dynamic Directory - January 27, 2020

The story behind designing and building one of America's greatest civil-engineering accomplishments.

It's 107 years since America's largest-recorded avalanche struck the town of Wellington in Washington state.

As German invaders tried to take the territory in and around Ypres, Allies battled back to hold the Belgian town.

Inglourious Basterds is a film which tells the fictional story of two plots to assassinate Nazi Germany's political leaders.

This WWI-era sign, along a road in the Belgian town of Ypres, signifies the profound losses sustained by residents of the town and the men who died fighting to keep it in Allied hands.

The October 20, 1917 cover of "Literary Digest" gives civilians a look at trench life during WWI. The picture, of course, doesn't tell the full story of the soldiers' misery.

Arrested and jailed for protesting without a permit, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. used his time in jail to write a letter urging a change in how Americans viewed the civil rights of African-Americans.

Ten years ago security cameras at the U.S. Embassy, in Haiti's capital city, recorded an earthquake during the afternoon of January 12, 2010. At the moment the earthquake began - 4:53 p.m., local time - cameras recorded this footage.

The Red Army liberated Auschwitz 75 years ago. What was this place of horrors?

A Brooklyn penny-candy-store owner (named Morris Michtom) was so intrigued by a 1902 political cartoon (featuring Theodore Roosevelt with a bear cub) that he asked his wife (Rose) to make a stuffed bear cub (resembling the one in the drawing).

Miles (Myles) Standish was a British military man who was born in Lancashire around 1584. He assisted the Pilgrims.

In this disastrous battle, from the patriots perspective, a tired and outnumbered British force (led by Banastre Tarleton) routed the Americans (led by Abraham Buford) near the border of North and South Carolina.

After Patriots forced General Howe and his fleet out of Boston, the Brits sailed into New York Harbor in June of 1776.

After the Declaration of Independence was signed, the Continental Congress authorized a new form of currency to be used throughout the United Colonies.

Joanne Pearce-Martin is principal keyboardist with the Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra.

The Toronto Music Garden is inspired by J.

(Robert) Vijay Gupta, child prodigy and friend of Nathaniel Ayers, is a violinist with the Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra.

In 1987, Lillian Disney - the widow of Walt Disney - decided to give a gift to the people of Los Angeles.

Los Angeles has a large homeless population. Some of the city's homeless people live in the Skid Row section of town, not far from Disney Hall.

As shown in this map, the western shore of the Dead Sea is located in Israel while the eastern shore is in Jordan.