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With the invasion of Singapore by Japan in 1942, many foreign women and children -…

Rodrigo Mendoza was a violent soldier-for-hire in 1750s South America. Now he is a man…

In the spring of 1950, the United States was extended an invitation to compete in…

In 1980, the United States Ice Hockey team’s coach, Herb Brooks, challenged a ragtag squad…

On January 23, 2002, Mariane Pearl’s world changed forever. Her husband Daniel, the South Asia…

Li Cunxin has been trained in ballet in his native China, when a dance instructor…

At the Berlin Conference of 1885, when Europe divided up the African continent, the Congo…

It’s 1183, and King Henry II of England finds himself in the unenviable position of…

Jean Valjean is a man haunted by his criminal past and an evil police chief…