Soviet Kazakhstan, late 1984, the Orbit 4 capsule has de-orbited and fallen back to Earth after a long mission in space, aboard it Cosmonauts Konstantin Veshnyakov and Kirill
With his sister Alice and brother Celstin, Thomas Van Hasebroeck was the optimistic and carefree child of a loving middle-class French family, their father a commercial pilot who
A lone tank of the British Eighth Army rolls across the African desert just past the border into Egypt, the crew dead from bullets or unconscious from heat,
For some, a birthday is a celebration; despite his wealth and powerful position as an investment banker, for Nicholas Van Orton it is emblematic of the emptiness of
Compiled by Chris Gosden, Professor of European Archaeology at the University of Oxford and former curator at the Pitt Rivers Museum, many of whose objects are referred to
Newton demonstrated that any object will continue in a uniform motion unless acted on by an external force; tumbling out of control in an escape pod following the
Two households, quite dissimilar in dignity, in France, where we lay our scene; there is the Groseille family, father unable to work since being injured in the Algerian
A Hungarian actor who emigrated to the United States in 1920, Béla Lugosi made almost a hundred and twenty films in his career, his name becoming synonymous with