In 902, an army of Danes crossed into Mercia. Rather than battle, Aethelflaed and Aethelred chose a diplomatic solution, giving the Danes a bit of land to live and work and avoiding an armed conflict. Aethelred died soon after. The...

MOT 1950: VATICAN CITY: Pope Pius XII (1876-1958) being carried in sedia gestatoria (papal chair) through center of Basilica Sancti Petri (St. Peter's Basilica). Crowd of people in Basilica.

Do you know the difference between peace, piece and peas? Can you put all three words into one sentence? Let us know in the comments section.

For those who know or know of him, there's another facet to Alan Kapuler's aka Mushroom — life. He's been painting modern art that reflects the major challenges of our times for almost 50 years. A brief summary of his background in...

How to find the center of mass of an irregularly shaped, flat object.

MOT 1943: BELEM PALACE BANQUET: EXT Guard standing at door. MS Men seated at long banquet table. Ambassador N. Franco & Prime Minister Salazar sitting talking waiters walking by. EXT Portugal soldiers w/ uniform & rifle marching down...

How to find the center of mass of an object with a missing piece.

MOT 1941: FIORELLO H. LAGUARDIA: MS US Civil Defense Program books authored by F.H. LaGuardia). REPRISING CONVERSATION: New York mayor Fiorello H. LaGuardia (1882-1947) talking to reporters about Hitler saying has violated...

From the archives: PART 2—Continuing our conversation with Ann Vileisis, author of Kitchen Literacy, she explains how over time we became gradually disconnected from how foods were produced and where they originated.

This video covers the Robbers Cave experiment, which was a controversial study conducted in 1954 that manipulated groups of boys from competing camps to fight each other. The study's findings established the realistic conflict theory,...

How one musician's soothing words calmed a city and stopped violence from erupting around the country.

Any world religion textbook will include Islam, Christianity, Judaism, Hinduism, and Buddhism. But how many include indigenous religions? What even are indigenous religions and how do we study them?

This video explores five fun facts about World War 1.

According to Tolstoy himself, War and Peace was "not a novel, even less is it a poem, and still less a historical chronicle." And in this day and age of publishing, where word count, “readability”, and topical relevance are the lifeline...

An insight into the orchestration and harmonic language contained within Holst’s “Venus - the bringer of peace” from his Suite ‘The Planets’. Holst makes an original and colourful combination of a Horn solo with 4 Flutes and 3 Oboes,...

The DiFebo family farm in Bangor, Pennsylvania has won the prestigious Aldo Leopold Conservation Award, presented by the Sand County Foundation. The DiFebos have partnered with USDA's Natural Resources Conservation Service to protect...

Bridgewater Associates founder Ray Dalio discusses how income inequality threatens economic prosperity, the importance of investing in China and his thoughts on inflation.

In this video, Jabzy brings us historical tidbits and unknown facts about the Viking Invasion of England

In this episode of Music History Crash Course we look at one of the most well known composers for piano, Frederic Chopin. Specifically, his Nocturne in E-flat major Opus 9 Number 2. We look at the structure of the composition as well as...

Toccata and Fugue in D minor is as mysterious as it is well known. In this episode, we take a closer look at the history of the organ piece.

The Supreme Court becomes kind of a big deal by getting judicial review.

Short animation explaining UN Sustainable Development Goal 16: Peace, Justice and Strong Institutions for younger students

This video is a lesson on dividing unit fractions by whole numbers. The teacher uses fraction bars to visually represent the division process and emphasizes the importance of considering the resulting piece in relation to the whole....

On September 12, 1962, John F. Kennedy gave one of the best speeches in recorded history. "We choose to go to the moon in this decade and do the other things, not because they are easy, but because they are hard, because that goal will...