Denis Hayes describes how he got involved with coordinating the first Earth Day on April 22, 1970 as a 25-year old and explains how they were able to get over 20 million participants to celebrate nation wide. Hayes also claims that Earth Day was responsible for triggering the environmentalist movement.
Ace Bourke and John Rendall, two Australians who raised a lion cub named Christian in their London flat, discuss what it was like to be reunited with him a year after his release into the wild. The men bought Christian the Lion from a department store in London and raised … Continue reading
A Nebraska resident describes her life in high school during the Dust Bowl period of the Great Depression and explains what the overpowering dust was like.
Adventurer Conrad Anker and fellow climbers detail the day they found the frozen body of climber George Mallory on May 1, 1999 and footage of the discovery follows. Mallory and climbing partner Sandy Irvin disappeared in 1924.
The board chair of CAIR-OK, a grassroots civil rights and advocacy group established by a group of local Muslims, talks about where he and his family hid during the Moore, Oklahoma tornado on May 20, 2013. See the damage done to the home, where the family is staying and what … Continue reading
Two women describe how they survived the devastation of the May 20, 2013 tornado in Moore, Oklahoma as they walk among the wreckage that used to be their neighborhood. They describe the sounds of the tornado, where they hid as the funnel cloud hit their home, how the neighbors helped … Continue reading
Watch the newsreel that ran after the Titanic sank on April 15, 1912.
Yei Theodora Ozaki's letter of friendship to Mrs. William Howard Taft offering 3,000 cherry trees to replace the original gift from 1911 that died due to pestilence. Continue reading
Edmund Hillary was one of the first two climbers to ever reach the peak of Mount Everest and he describes when he first believed that they would succeed in their quest. Continue reading
