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In a silent desert valley, among mountains of rose-red stone, lies a fabulous lost city once thought to be only a legend. For centuries, it was forgotten, its name erased from maps, its splendour whispered only in Bedouin tales. Accessible only through a dramatic mile-long chasm or siq, where towering cliffs block out the sun,…

Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels met at the Café de la Régence in Paris in 1844 and began a movement that some considered humanity’s best hope. Amid censorship, police raids, riots, and political upheavals, the two young German revolutionaries became lifelong friends and agreed to collaborate on The Communist Manifesto. Karl Marx was the genius;…

Planet Earth is filled with wonders. Natural ones include some of the most beautiful places in the world, like mountains, waterfalls, rainforests, canyons, volcanoes, and coral reefs. Then there are man-made wonders that comprise cities, temples, statues, palaces, pyramids, monuments and mausoleums. For thousands of years, people have been making lists of these wonders, trying…

Planet Earth is filled with wonders. Natural ones include some of the most beautiful places in the world, like mountains, waterfalls, rainforests, canyons, volcanoes, and coral reefs. Then there are man-made wonders that comprise cities, temples, statues, palaces, pyramids, monuments and mausoleums. For thousands of years, people have been making lists of these wonders, trying…

They were told they were going somewhere better. Most never saw their families again. In the 17th century, King James I began shipping orphaned and underprivileged children across the ocean to the British colonies. The first group was a hundred street children, sent to Virginia as workers. They were the beginning of something far larger.…

One of the most important battles ever fought took place in the skies over southern England in the summer and autumn of 1940. After the successful Blitzkrieg invasion of much of western Europe, the fall of France, and the forced evacuation of the British Expeditionary Force at Dunkirk in early June 1940, the next step…

There is something magical about flight. Since the dawn of time, humans have yearned to soar like birds. Lacking wings of our own, we built machines to conquer the sky, and in today’s jet age, roughly 4.5 billion people take to the air each year. Yet the sky is not our natural environment, and the…

From Federation in 1901, Australia’s military story has been written on foreign battlefields: the Boer War, two world wars, Korea, Vietnam, the Gulf, Afghanistan, and Iraq. But in 1932, the only military campaign ever fought on Australian soil unfolded in the wheat belt of Campion, Western Australia. While the Great Depression crushed farmers, some 20,000…

Shoichi Yokoi was a Japanese soldier who refused to surrender at the end of World War II. Instead, he vanished into the jungles of Guam and lived in an underground cave for nearly 28 years after the war was over. He survived on fruit, nuts, snails, shrimp, eels, and rats. Today, he is remembered for…

One of the most fascinating events in modern political history is Watergate, the scandal in Washington, D.C., that led to the resignation of U.S. President Richard Nixon. What started as a break-in at the Democratic National Committee headquarters quickly grew into a nationwide crisis involving wiretapping, illegal funds, secret tapes, and a cover-up that reached…

We observe the painful impact of trying to accomplish God’s plans with human wisdom. Frustrated at the seeming impossibility of God’s promises, Sarai hatches a plan to use her maidservant as a surrogate. As drama is introduced to the family, God will repeat His promises with new symbols and new names. Abram and Sarai will…

Fukushima is a place forever marked by a triple disaster. Within minutes, a massive earthquake, devastating tsunami, and nuclear meltdown unleashed an unprecedented wave of death, displacement, and destruction across the Tohoku region of Japan. Thousands of people and most of their worldly possessions were washed away in a matter of minutes. Hundreds of thousands…